Building 129 (Guard House) , South Barracks
BUILDING 129 (GUARD HOUSE), SOUTH BARRACKS, DOVER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259176
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Building 129 (Guard House) , South Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- BUILDING 129 (GUARD HOUSE), SOUTH BARRACKS, DOVER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259176
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Building 129 (Guard House) , South Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUILDING 129 (GUARD HOUSE), SOUTH BARRACKS, DOVER ROAD
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BUILDING 129 (GUARD HOUSE), SOUTH BARRACKS, DOVER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Walmer
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 37553 51133
Details
TR 35 SE DEAL DOVER ROAD, Lower Walmer
(North West side)
860/5/10011 Building 129 (Guard House),
South Barracks
GV II
Guard house and lock up. 1861, with Detention Block added late C19. Yellow stock brick with brick ridge stacks and slate hipped roof. L-shaped single-depth plan. Single storey; 4x7-bay verandah to guard house, 5-window late C19 cell block. EXTERIOR: The S guard house, painted white, has an overhanging roof forming a verandah on cast-iron columns, with 2 doorways to the centre of the long side with small lights each side, and a 6/6-pane sash in the end. The detention block has small segmental-arched lights with iron frames high beneath the eaves of the cells. INTERIOR not inspected, but reported to contain original room divisions. HISTORY: One of only two examples of guard houses in barracks built by the Barracks Department at the start of the Revolutionary War with France. Forms part of a group with the Officers' mess and infantry and cavalry barracks (qqv) in one of the most complete late C18 barracks in the country.
Listing NGR: TR3755351133
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463146
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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