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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 9 appears to be of late 18th to early 19th century date (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information).

Monument Types

• WAREHOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1750 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 at the south-western end of the block, adjoining building 8. it comprises a brick built structure with a concrete floor and pitched corrugated asbestos roof supported on a steel girder framework. Internally the building has been sub-divided by a modern concrete block wall. The steel girder and concrete platform present in building 8 continues along the north west side of this building also. The north west wall is of red brick set in English bond and is pierced with two large sliding doors. On the south west side of this wall a wooden framed window is present and there is a large double louvre opening in the gable. The south west wall of the building is complex and has multiple phases of building and repair. The earliest phase exposed lies at the base and extends for 14m from the quayside. It consists of flint and greensand rubble with double horizontal rows of yellow stock brick set in a cream-white sandy mortar. This may well represent a boundary wall rather than part of an earlier building and could conceivably be as early as the late 18th century but is more probably early 19th. The upper levels of the wall presumably relate to a later 19th century building, subsequently extensively reconstructed to form the present warehouse. (1)

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 Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1996, The Dover Harbour Cambridge Road Warehouses: An Historic Building Survey (Unpublished document).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

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