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Monument details

Summary

A coal yard and straw barn were constructed at the Citadel by about 1861. These consisted of two, two storey buildings situated to the east of the Canteen. They were constructed in brick with a slate roof. By 1897 the Straw barn was being used as a Fire Engine House. The whole complex has now been demolished. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• BARN (Demolished, Post Medieval - 1861 AD? to 1897 AD?)
• COAL SHED (Demolished, Post Medieval to Modern - 1861 AD? to 1945 AD?)
• WOOD SHED (Demolished, Post Medieval to Modern - 1861 AD? to 1945 AD?)
• FIRE ENGINE HOUSE (Demolished, Post Medieval to Modern - 1897 AD? to 1945 AD?)

Full description

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Summarised from report:

A Coal Yard and Straw Barn were constructed at the Citadel by about 1861. These consisted of two, two storey buildings situated to the east of the Canteen. As built, two single-storey buildings, in brick with slate roofs, stood at opposite ends of the Coal Yard; a Wood Store on the east and a Straw Barn on the west. The Coal Yard was defined by a high wall, buttressed at intervals to give five bays to north and south and three on the end walls. On the south side a large gateway, flanked by buttresses rising full-height in the form of piers, occupied the second bay from the east. The easternmost bay of the yard was filled by the low Wood Shed, presenting four open-fronted bays to the yard beneath a monopitch roof. The open front was supported on slender columns, probably of cast iron. The Straw Barn was a taller building with a large segmental-headed doorway in the south gable, three ventilators in the west wall and one more high up in each gable. The roof was of clasped-purlin form. By 1897 the Straw barn was being used as a Fire Engine House. The whole complex has now been demolished. (1)

Detail of this structure appears on a plan dating to 1871 which shows all of the works which were undertaken under the reccomendations of the Royal Commission, though this structure likley pre dates this plan by about 10 years. (2)

<1> English Heritage, 2004, The Western Heights, Dover, Kent: Report No. 2: The Citadel (Unpublished document). SKE17690.

<2> Captain H S Palmer (?), 1871, War Department OS 1:2500 Sheet LXVIII.15, revision of 1871, annotated with positions of magazines in the Citadel in 1877 (Map). SKE51524.

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