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Monument details

Summary

A building, containing a pair of (semidetached) Warrant Officers quarters, was constructed in brick, facing north on a small area of level ground on the south side of Citadel Road just west of the South Lines. They are double-fronted, of two storeys and three-by-three narrow bays with a hipped slate roof. They were constructed after 1897 and before 1900, when a detailed record plan was made. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• OFFICERS QUARTERS (Altered, Post Medieval to Modern - 1897 AD? to 1950 AD?)

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Summarised from report:

A building, containing a pair of (semidetached) Warrant Officers quarters, was constructed in brick, facing north on a small area of level ground on the south side of Citadel Road just west of the South Lines. They are double-fronted, of two storeys and three-by-three narrow bays with a hipped slate roof. They were constructed after 1897 and before 1900, when a detailed record plan was made. The record plan shows that they were built as semi-detached houses for Warrant Officers, No 3 on the west and No 2 on the east. Both houses were well-appointed, comprising kitchen, scullery and living room on the ground floor, with flat-roofed porched entrances in the east and west walls respectively, and three heated bedrooms and WCs on the first floor. There were yards to the north, incorporating a coal store, and small enclosed gardens on the south. White paint obscures the original grey brickwork with its red brick bands at plinth, ground-floor window head, first-floor window head and eaves level. The porches survive along with the large shared, central stack. The building is still present today though has been converted into flats. (1)

A plan and elevation drawing of this building, dating to 1900 – shortly after it was constructed, gives details of the interior layout as well as some of the exterior features. (2)

<1> RCHME, 2001, The Western Heights, Dover, Kent. Report No 9: South Front Barracks. Later 19th and 20th-century barracks complex (Unpublished document). SKE17505.

<2> Royal Engineers, 1900, Plans, sections and elevations of Warrant Officers Quarters numbers two and three of the South Front Barracks (Plan). SKE51611.

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