Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Between 1860 and 1870 a bread and meat store 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 plan dating to 1898 shows that it was located between the stables and the straw store, with Citadel Road on its northern side. It was a small rectangular brick building with a slate roof, well-ventilated and with a veranda for air and shade. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• STOREHOUSE (Demolished, Post Medieval to Modern - 1860 AD? to 1945 AD?)

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Summarised from report:

Between 1860 and 1870 a bread and meat store was constructed (alongside a variety of other structures) on the rising ground to the south of the casemated barracks at the South Front Barracks. The ground plan reveals that this building was similar to another (demolished) example at the Grand Shaft Barracks and to one still standing in Dover Castle. As such, it was probably a small rectangular brick building with a slate roof, well-ventilated and with a veranda for air and shade. A plan dating to 1898 shows that it was located between the stables and the straw store, with Citadel Road on its northern side. (1) Nothing is extant above ground, though the site is not built over. (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 Later 19th and 20th-century barracks complex (Unpublished document).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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