Building 12 (Officers Mess) South Barracks
BUILDING 12 (OFFICERS MESS) SOUTH BARRACKS, DOVER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363449
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Building 12 (Officers Mess) South Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- BUILDING 12 (OFFICERS MESS) SOUTH BARRACKS, DOVER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363449
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jan-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Building 12 (Officers Mess) South Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUILDING 12 (OFFICERS MESS) SOUTH BARRACKS, DOVER ROAD
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.
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 12 (OFFICERS MESS) 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 37488 51302
Details
TR 35 SE DEAL DOVER ROAD, Lower Walmer
(North West side)
860/5/248 Building 12 (Officers' Mess),
South Barracks
8.2.74
GV II
Officers' quarters and mess, now Royal Marines barracks. 1795, by J Johnson and J Sanders, Barrack Department architects; Royal Marines barracks from 1869, altered mid C19, and extended early C20. Yellow Flemish bond brick with rubbed brick headers, brick lateral and ridge stacks, and hipped slate roof. Double-depth axial plan. Late Georgian style. 3 storeys and attic; 19-window range. EXTERIOR: the original 13-window range has a 7-window central section broken forward under a wide pediment with dentil eaves cornices and a clock set in a semi-circular recess, and a square louvred cupola. Mid C19 pedimented porches at each end have vermiculated keys, and imposts to round-arched doorways and mid C20 doors, with sashes each side; segmental-arched rubbed brick heads to ground-floor plate-glass sashes, blind windows alternate with 6/6-pane sashes on the first-floor and 3/6-pane second-floor sashes, most with horns. Flat-headed lead-clad dormers to front and back.
Early C20 3-window extensions each side in matching style and fenestation, each have rendered parapets and flat roofs, with a central lateral stack. Similar rear elevation with 4 central dormers; below extends a former kitchen wing including a tall lantern to one section. INTERIOR: largely reconstructed mid C20 with mouldings and other fittings replaced; original transverse dogleg stairs have column newels and stick balusters. HISTORICAL NOTE: The C18 range is one of only two officers' quarters that survives from the first English army barrack-building campaign of the 1790s, and part of a group with the men's accommodation to the right, and the former cavalry barracks to the NE (qqv).
Listing NGR: TR3677351934
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 177061
- 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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