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Monument details

Summary

Between 1860 and 1870 a laundry building was constructed (alongside a variety of other structures) on the rising ground to the south of the casemated barracks at the South Front Barracks. A site plan dating to 1897 shows that it was a simple rectangular building sub-divided into a wash house, a laundry and a small drying room, with a drying ground outside to the north west. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• LAUNDRY (Demolished, Post Medieval to Modern - 1861 AD? to 1945 AD?)

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Summarised from report:

Between 1860 and 1870 a laundry building was constructed (alongside a variety of other structures) on the rising ground to the south of the casemated barracks at the South Front Barracks. It was built probably in compliance with recommendations contained in a report of 1861 by the Royal Commission on the Condition of Barracks and Hospitals. A site plan dating to 1897 (1) shows a simple rectangular building sub-divided into a wash house, a laundry and a small drying room, with a drying ground outside to the north west. (2)

<1> Colonel Kirkwood, 1898, Ordnance Survey town plan of Dover: map showing South Front barracks and a nearby hospital. (Plan). SKE51596.

<2> RCHME, 2001, The Western Heights, Dover, Kent. Report No 9: South Front Barracks. Later 19th and 20th-century barracks complex (Unpublished document). SKE17505.

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