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Monument details

Summary

The Armourer’s Shop, which is no longer present, was situated on the eastern side of the Coal Yard, formed part of the improvements mooted at the end of the 1850s but it was not completed until 1870. It was a single-storeyed building, roughly square in plan, with a small projection on the north side. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• ARMAMENT DEPOT (Demolished, Post Medieval - 1870 AD? to 1897 AD?)
• FORGE (Demolished, Post Medieval to Modern - 1897 AD? to 1911 AD?)
• BLACKSMITHS WORKSHOP (Demolished, Modern - 1911 AD? to 1945 AD?)

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Summarised from report:

The Armourer’s Shop, which is no longer present, was situated on the eastern side of the Coal Yard, formed part of the improvements mooted at the end of the 1850s but it was not completed until 1870. It was a single-storeyed building, roughly square in plan, with a small projection on the north side. It was constructed of grey stock brick with a flat concrete roof, composed of three shallow segmental vaults, supported by wrought-iron beams. Between 1870 and 1871 the Armourer’s Shop was extended northwards for the full length of the Coal Yard wall. It is marked ‘Forge’ on the 1897 plan and known as the Smith’s Shop by 1911. (1)

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 English Heritage, 2004, The Western Heights, Dover, Kent: Report No. 2: The Citadel (Unpublished document).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

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