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Monument details

Summary

Former Dover Harbour Station GII Listed Building situated on Elizabeth Street, Dover. Former railway station, later bonded warehouse and more recently a training centre. Built in 1861 in an Italianate style. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• RAILWAY STATION (RAILWAY STATION, Unknown date)
• BUILDING (Post Medieval to Modern - 1861 AD to 1937 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
Former Dover Harbour Station GII Listed Building situated on Elizabeth Street, Dover. Former railway station, later bonded warehouse and more recently a training centre. Built in 1861 in an Italianate style from very large yellow bricks on end with stock brick dressings and polychrome brick voussoirs under a slate roof. Southernmost part was formerly the Station Master's Office. Projecting pedimented gable with brick cornice and paired round-headed windows, blocked to base. South side has C20 door inserted in enlarged original window opening. Attached to rear is a yellow brick tower with stone coping, bands of red brick and lancet windows. To the north are 3 cambered windows leading to the former Booking Office. This is of one storey 4 bays with brick chimneystack to left. Red brick modillion eaves cornice. Three round-headed windows with top pivoting windows with red and yellow brick voussoirs and black brick band. Left side doorcase with semi-circular pediment and plank door. Adjoining to north is a further section with 3 yellow brick chimneystacks. Right hand section has 5 cambered blocked windows. Left hand section has 10 round-headed windows, 2 with oculus above and C20 door. Linked by a curtain wall is the former First Class Waiting Room with hipped roof now covered in asbestos sheeting, round-headed window and C20 double doors. Curtain wall on the platform side has a series of round-headed arches which were filled in c1927 when the railway station was moved nearer to the harbour and this building was converted into a bonded warehouse. The Harbour Station was unusual in that a section of the down platform was on wheels. This section could be swung out of the way to allow trains access to the line leading to the Princes of Wales Pier and the Promendae Railway. Listing NGR: TR3215940127. (1)

The station is visisble on a number of histori OS maps dating to the ned of the 19th and early 20th centuries. (2-5)

The GIS polygon associated with this record does not represent the full extent or curtilage of the listed building but merely defines the outline of the building. For further information on the extent of the listed building please contact Dover District Council.

Historic England archive material: BF006461 DOVER HARBOUR STATION, DOVER

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Landmark, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 1st edition 1862-1875): Landmark Epoch 1 (Map). SKE30964.

<3> Landmark, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 2nd Edition, 1897-1900): Landmark Epoch 2 (Map). SKE30965.

<4> Landmark, 1907-1923, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 3rd Edition, 1907-1923) (Map). SKE30966.

<5> Landmark, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 4th Edition, 1929-1952) (Map). SKE30967.

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