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Monument details

HER Number:TR 34 SW 2053
Type of record:Monument
Name:Soldiers room of the Citadel, Western Heights, Dover

Summary

Between 1871 and 1888 a soldiers room containing a bar was constructed on the north western side of the Canteen/Regimental institute. It has since been demolished. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)


Grid Reference:TR 3073 4064
Map Sheet:TR34SW
Parish:DOVER, DOVER, KENT

Monument Types

  • BAR (LICENSED) (Disused, Post Medieval to Modern - 1888 AD? to 1945 AD?)

Full description

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Summarised from report:

Between 1871 and 1888 a Soldiers’ Room was built to the north of the western end of the Canteen/Regimental Institute. This had a gabled roof and clasping buttresses to the corners. In 1929 it remained in the same use, a partition dividing it between a Soldiers’ Room and a smaller Bar. It has been demolished. (1)


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 English Heritage, 2004, The Western Heights, Dover, Kent: Report No. 2: The Citadel (Unpublished document).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

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>XYUnpublished document: English Heritage. 2004. The Western Heights, Dover, Kent: Report No. 2: The Citadel. [Mapped feature: #92391 Soldiers room of the Citadel, Western Heights, Dover, ]

Related records

TR 34 SW 491Part of: The Citadel, Western Heights, Dover (Building)