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Monument details

Summary

The warrant officers quarters were constructed between the main entrance and the pump room and consisted of two single storey buildings, the first of which was constructed between 1871 and 1890 while the second was constructed in 1891. These two structures have today been extended and combined to make one continuous building. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• OFFICERS QUARTERS (Disused, Post Medieval to Modern - 1890 AD? to 1945 AD?)

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Summarised from report:

The warrant officers quarters were constructed between the main entrance and the pump room and consisted of two single storey buildings. The first of these was built between the Main Entrance and the Pump House between 1871 and 1891 (it probably dates from 1890). In its original form it was a single-storeyed U-plan building with a four-bay main range oriented roughly north-west to south-east, and single-bay rear ranges projecting north-eastwards from either end. It was plainly built of brick, probably rendered, with a flat concrete roof, and provided two mirror-plan dwellings. Each dwelling was entered through a side door in the rear range, one half of which served as a Lobby. This opened onto a Living Room or Sitting Room and doubtless doubling as a kitchen from here a doorway led into a Scullery forming the other half of the rear range and beyond this there was a smaller unheated bedroom. The 1897 proposals enlarged the building but also adapted it for single occupation,
bringing it into line with the improved standard of accommodation.

The second was also a single-storeyed building, built to designs dated 1891, offered a considerable
improvement in the standard of accommodation offered by No 1 as first built. It had brick walls, blue brick window sills and chamfered plinth courses and a flat zinc roof. The irregular plan consisted of a main range, two rooms deep, at the south-east end of which a wing, also of two rooms, projected slightly on the south-west front. The entrance gave onto a passage off which the Kitchen, and beyond it a Scullery, opened in the main range. On the opposite side, doors opened into the Living Room at the front of the wing, and the main Bedroom to the rear, their fireplaces back-to-back on the cross-wall. Two further Bedrooms, heated by corner fireplaces backing onto the Kitchen stack, occupied the rear of the main range. The annexe contained a WC and a store for coals. (1)

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

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