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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 34 SW 2100 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Waggon Store of the South Front Barracks, western Heights, Dover |
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Summary
Between 1871 and 1897 a Waggon 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 1897 plan shows it located on the southern side of Citadel Road, to the north east of the Straw Barn. By 1903 this structure had been replaced by a Modelling Shed/ASC Store and the Victoria Hall Establishment. No further information about the form or function of this structure is available. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)
| Grid Reference: | TR 3116 4061 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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| Parish: | DOVER, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- CART SHED (Demolished, Post Medieval to Modern - 1871 AD? to 1903 AD?)
Full description
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Summarised from report:
Between 1871 and 1897 a Waggon 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 1897/8 plan (1) shows it located on the southern side of Citadel Road, to the north east of the Straw Barn. By 1903 this structure had been replaced by a Modelling Shed/ASC Store and the Victoria Hall Establishment. No further information about the form or function of this structure is available. (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 Later 19th and 20th-century barracks complex (Unpublished document).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.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Plan: Colonel Kirkwood. 1898. Ordnance Survey town plan of Dover: map showing South Front barracks and a nearby hospital.. |
| <2>XY | Unpublished document: RCHME. 2001. The Western Heights, Dover, Kent. Report No 9: South Front Barracks. Later 19th and 20th-century barracks complex. [Mapped feature: #92790 Waggon Store, ] |
Related records
| TR 34 SW 974 | Part of: Former site of South Front Barracks, Dover Western Heights (Monument) |
