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Monument details

HER Number:TR 34 SW 2573
Type of record:Building
Name:The Constables Stable and Carriage House, Dover Castle

Summary

The Constables Stable and Carriage House, which is located on the western side of the Castle Complex, just to the north of the Constables Gateway and linked to it by a kitchen garden, was constructed in 1883. The interior has been little altered and retains a number of original features including the grooms quarters, hay loft and stalls. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Grid Reference:TR 3239 4199
Map Sheet:TR34SW
Parish:DOVER, DOVER, KENT

Monument Types

  • CARRIAGE HOUSE (Disused, Post Medieval to Modern - 1883 AD to 2050 AD)
  • GARDEN (Disused, Post Medieval to Modern - 1883 AD to 2050 AD)
  • HAYLOFT (Disused, Post Medieval to Modern - 1883 AD to 2050 AD)
  • STABLE (Disused, Post Medieval to Modern - 1883 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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The Constables Stable and Carriage House, which is located on the western side of the Castle Complex, just to the north of the Constables Gateway and linked to it by a kitchen garden, was constructed in 1883. The interior has been little altered and retains a number of original features including the grooms quarters, hay loft and stalls.

The building is in ragstone with ashlar windows, it has two storeys on the southern side and a single storey on the northern. The southern end has large sliding doors in order to get carriages in and there is a second carriage house at the far northern end of the range. A door and steps in the yard to the south of the building lead to the grooms flat. Within the stables there is a gabled hay door to the loft above. The stable door with pairs of windows each side leads into the passage behind the stalls and loose boxes along the rear wall, with mangers in the back wall and a ladder to the hayloft in the north end of the roof; access also to the Tack Room at the south end beneath the flat. Summarised from sources (1-2)


<1> English Heritage, 2014, Dover Castle Conservation Management Plan Volume 2 Gazetteer (Unpublished document). SKE52105.

<2> Johnathan Coad, 1995, English Heritage Book of Dover Castle and the Defences of Dover (Monograph). SKE52106.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2014. Dover Castle Conservation Management Plan Volume 2 Gazetteer.
<2>Monograph: Johnathan Coad. 1995. English Heritage Book of Dover Castle and the Defences of Dover.

Related records

TR 34 SW 2772Parent of: Garden Wall on the northern side of the C19th Constables House at Dover Castle, Kent (Monument)
TR 34 SW 5Part of: Dover Castle (Monument)