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Monument details

Summary

A building assessment was carried out in the warehouses on Cambridge Road in 1996 ahead of proposals to convert them into retail outlets. Building 8 appears to be of 19th century date (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information).

Monument Types

• WAREHOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1801 AD? to 2050 AD?)

Full description

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A building assessment was carried out in the warehouses on Cambridge Road in 1996 ahead of proposals to convert them into retail outlets.

Taken from the source (1996): Building 8 is a large warehouse situated in the centre of this group and consists of a red brick structure (English bond) with a concrete floor and a pitched asbestos roof (painted red pink) supported on a steel girder framework. Due to the slope of the ground towards Slip Quay an external ramped platform of steel girders and concrete, standing some 1.75m above the quay level has been constructed against the north west side of the building. This gives access to a central wooden doorway at the same level as Cambridge Road and the internal floor. This doorway is flanked by two large wooden framed windows, with a circular brick vent in the gable above. The north east wall forms a party wall with building 7 and is pierced by four large windows which appear to relate to building 7, implying that building 8 has been butted onto a formerly external wall at a later date. Towards the north west end of this wall a brick built chimney-vent extends above the roof top level, although it has no obvious internal aperture. Facing Cambridge Road, the south east elevation contains a blocked window at ground floor level, together with a large centrally placed, steel sliding door with a single door on the south west side. On the south west side, the brick wall separating this building from building 9 has been removed in the south eastern half and replaced by vertical steel girders. (1)

<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1996, The Dover Harbour Cambridge Road Warehouses: An Historic Building Survey (Unpublished document). SKE12340.

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