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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 34 SW 892 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | THE INFIRMARY |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1909 to 1909
| Grid Reference: | TR 3294 4352 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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| Parish: | GUSTON, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Modern - 1909 AD to 1909 AD)
- HOSPITAL (Modern - 1914 AD to 1918 AD (between))
Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 34 SW GUSTON DUKE OF YORKS ROYAL MILITARY SCHOOL
5/16 The Infirmary
GV II
Infirmary buildings. 1909 by Sir Henry Tanner. Pebbledashed and red brick with plain tiled roof. Arts and Crafts Georgian style. Symmetrical plan, with central main range and flanking end blocks linked by corridor wings. Main range 2 storeys with rusticated quoins and projecting centre piece with pediment;modillion eaves cornice to hipped roof with stacks to left, centre and right. Three paired glazing bar sashes on first floor, with brick aprons and 2 on ground floor, keyed with central tented bay window. Single storey flanking wings with returned hip adjacent to main block with semi-dormer, large mullioned wooden windows and wooden porches with half glazed door. End pavillions raised on arched base open throughout to ventilation. Colonnaded loggias to either hipped block with single storey service wing projecting on return elevations. Glazing bar sashes throughout with segmentally headed semi-dormers on return elevations. Barrel vaulted interiors to wards.
Listing NGR: TR3248343658
WWI Volutary Aid Detachment (VAD) Hospital for 1 officer and 69 O/Rs.
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
Hazel Basford, 2004, Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War (Unpublished document). SKE31644.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| --- | Unpublished document: Hazel Basford. 2004. Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War. |
