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Monument details

Summary

A little to the south-east West Flank Casemates there was a two-cell building built of brick with a slate roof. Exactly when this building was constructed is unknown but it was certainly in existence by 1871 when it was in use as a Armoury. On a slightly later plan (1880’s) it is labelled as a Laboratory, a type of building in which shells were filled with explosive. In 1911 it was in use as the Armament Offices and in 1929 as the Medical Inspection Building, incorporating a Waiting Room at the eastern end. This building has since been demolished. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• ARMOURY (Demolished, Post Medieval - 1871 AD? to 1880 AD?)
• LABORATORY (Demolished, Post Medieval to Modern - 1880 AD? to 1911 AD?)
• MEDICAL BLOCK (Demolished, Modern - 1911 AD? to 1945 AD?)

Full description

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Summarised from report:

A little to the south-east West Flank Casemates there was a two-cell building built of brick with a slate roof. Exactly when this building was constructed is unknown but it was certainly in existence by 1871 when it was in use as a Armoury. On a slightly later plan (1880’s) it is labelled as a Laboratory, a type of building in which shells were filled with explosive. In 1911 it was in use as the Armament Offices and in 1929 as the Medical Inspection Building, incorporating a Waiting Room at the eastern end. This building has since 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. (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 English Heritage, 2004, The Western Heights, Dover, Kent: Report No. 2: The Citadel (Unpublished document).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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