Administration Block, Dover Young Offenders Institution
ADMINISTRATION BLOCK, DOVER YOUNG OFFENDERS INSTITUTION, WESTERN HEIGHTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375598
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Administration Block, Dover Young Offenders Institution
- Statutory Address:
- ADMINISTRATION BLOCK, DOVER YOUNG OFFENDERS INSTITUTION, WESTERN HEIGHTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375598
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Administration Block, Dover Young Offenders Institution
- Statutory Address 1:
- ADMINISTRATION BLOCK, DOVER YOUNG OFFENDERS INSTITUTION, WESTERN HEIGHTS
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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:
- ADMINISTRATION BLOCK, DOVER YOUNG OFFENDERS INSTITUTION, WESTERN HEIGHTS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dover
- National Grid Reference:
- TR3093440433
Details
TF 3140 DOVER WESTERN HEIGHTS
685/7/10010 Admin block, Dover Young
Offenders Institution
GV II
Formerly known as: Officers' Quarters, Western Heights. Officers quarters within citadel, now offices. 1861, by the Inspector-General of Fortifications. Red brick with limestone dressings and flat asphalt roof. Gothic Revival style. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement; 15-window range. Similar front and rear elevations have deep projecting centre bays, cornice and deep parapet to a former bomb-proof roof. The entrance is flanked b buttresses with a flat 2-centre archway and steps up to a mid C20 door beneath a pair of gun ports and a panel wit the royal coat of arms dated 1861. Windows have paired Tudor-arched lights with 4/4-pane sashes under flat-ground-floor and 4-centre arched first-floor arches, with a mid-point Tudor-arched doorway to the inner elevation with flanking lights, under cross-light oriels with weathered coping to front and rear. Large clasping buttress to the ashlar ends, which are divided into 3 bays, the middle one narrower with gun recesses and splayed side INTERIOR: The entrance hall has a large mid C20 stair, and rooms off an axial round-arched passage the length of the building. The basement contains former stables, stores and water tanks. HISTORY: Formed the quarters and mess for the officers in the Western Heights Citadel (SAM), which was built in the 1800s. The origin accommodation was all in casemates. With its gun ports and bomb-proof earth-filled roof, it was partly intended a defensible keep in the event of the Citadel being stormed. The level of defence is representative of a time of rapid developing artillery and fortifications.
Listing NGR: TR3093440433
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469562
- 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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