GRAND SHAFT STAIRS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

GRAND SHAFT STAIRS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, DROP REDOUBT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375599
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: GRAND SHAFT STAIRS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: GRAND SHAFT STAIRS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, DROP REDOUBT ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375599
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: GRAND SHAFT STAIRS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: GRAND SHAFT STAIRS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, DROP REDOUBT ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: GRAND SHAFT STAIRS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, DROP REDOUBT ROAD

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:: TR 31605 40907

Details

TR 34 SW DOVER DROP REDOUBT ROAD (south side), Western Heights 865/7/10008 Grand Shaft stairs and attached railings

II

Underground spiral stair. 1803-05, by Sir Thomas Hyde Page, RE, under Lt Col William Twiss, RE Divisior Engineer. Brick and cast-iron. Three concentric flights of winder stairs round an open shaft, the opening at the top, with curved stairs meeting in a single flight up to the former parade ground in front of the barracks. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: iron railings with urn finials found top of shaft and to stairs up, with a lamp standard on the stairs. HISTORY: connected the Grand Shaft Barracks (demolished) with Snargate Street at the base of the cliffs, to allow the rapid movement of troops between the barracks and the shore. The three stairs were designated for 'gentlemen and their ladies, officers and their wives, and soldiers and their women'. A 'bold and imaginative solution to communication problems (and) a unique piece of military engineering.' (Coad) (Post Medieval Arch: Coad J: The Later Fortifications of Dover: 1982-: 141-200).

Listing NGR: TR3110241449

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Legacy System number:: 469563
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Coad, J, 'Post Medieval Architecture' in Post Medieval Architecture, (1982), 141-200

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.