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Monument details

Summary

A building assessment was carried out in the warehouses on Cambridge Road in 1996 and 1997 ahead of proposals to convert them into retail outlets. Building 10 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 and again in 1997 ahead of proposals to convert them into retail outlets.

Taken from the source (1997): Building 10 is a large open building on the south west side of the gap separating the buildings of group B and group C. In general form it appears to be a single brick built structure with a corrugated asbestos roof supported by steel trusses. At the north west end, fronting onto Slip Quay, the roof is gabled while the Cambridge Road frontage is hipped. There are several periods of development of this building. It would appear that the lowest walling preserved in the north west and north east elevations is amongst the earliest exposed anywhere within the group C structures. On the evidence of the fabric alone it seems possible that it is of 18th century date but very similar mortar was used for the construction of the adjacent Patent Slipway dated 1847-50, indicating that it is probably later. (1) A detailed map of the area dating to 1809 shows no building on this site. The use of the building seems to have changed over time. On the 1861 OS map they are marked as stores. (2) The Goad insurance map of 1905 indicates that the structures formed stables associated with H and E Crundalls coal stores. The 1929 edition of Goad shows that they then formed part of Crundalls garage. At some later date the buildings seem to have been remodelled to form the present single large structure. (3)

<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1997, The Dover Harbour Cambridge Road Warehouses, An Historic Building Survey. Part 2 (Unpublished document). SKE31647.

<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1997, The Dover Harbour Cambridge Road Warehouses, An Historic Building Survey. Part 2 (Unpublished document). SKE31647.

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

<3> C. E. Goad, 1905, Kent Fire insurance plans sheets 1-7 (Map). SKE51666.

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