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Monument details

Summary

The Commissioned Officers quarters of the Grand Shaft Barracks, was a detached residence with a garden laid out on its south western side along the intermediate terrace. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• OFFICERS QUARTERS (Demolished, Post Medieval to Modern - 1805 AD? to 1960 AD?)

Full description

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Summarised from report:

The Commissioned Officers quarters of the Grand Shaft Barracks, was a detached residence with a garden laid out on its south western side along the intermediate terrace. The site of this building lies behind Barrack Store No 2 in a deep cutting reveted on the north-west and south-west by high brick walls up to 3.0m high, laid to English bond. The north-western wall has a butt joint, west of which the brick is rendered and a brick pillar has been inserted in the corner: this short stretch was the northern end wall of the building proper: all the remaining walls are revetments for the cutting. East of the butt joint, red brick is used in place of the yellow stock brick elsewhere. (1)

The earliest plan which shows the completed Napoleonic works which were undertaken at the Grand Shaft Barracks dates to 1810. (2) A later plan which dates to 1861, immediately prior to the 1860's scheme of works which were undertaken at the barracks site, gives further detail of the buildings constructed during the Napoleonic works, including lables of specific buildings. (3)

<1> RCHME, 2000, The Western Heights, Dover, Kent. Report No 4: The Grand Shaft Barracks, 19th and 20th-century infantry barracks (Unpublished document). SKE17499.

<2> Major W H Ford, Royal Engineers, 1811, Plan Shewing the Appropriation of the Ordnance Lands on the Western Heights Dover 1811 (Map). SKE51523.

<3> Unknown, 1861, Dover, General Plan of the Western Heights Barracks (Plan). SKE51541.

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