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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 34 SW 1136 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of the former guard chamber at the Grand Shaft entrance courtyard, Snargate Street, Dover. |
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Summary
The Grand Shaft was designed to connect the Western Heights to the harbour. This is the location of the original guard chamber (after c.1807) to the Grand Shaft entrance on Snargate Street (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information).
| Grid Reference: | TR 31647 40895 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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| Parish: | DOVER, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- GUARDHOUSE (Demolished, Post Medieval to Modern - 1807 AD? to 1969 AD (between))
Full description
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In the early period of the Grand Shaft (which was built between 1804-1807) the entrance courtyard consisted of a boundary wall, gate and small guard chamber. Little of the earliest phase of the complex survives. Some of the original cobbled surface, a substantial length of the south western boundary wall and a short length of the north-eastern boundary wall adjacent to the cliff are all that remains of the original early 19th century complex.
The short length of wall at the north end of original north-eastern boundary wall is believed to be older than the rest of the wall and would have likely formed the north eastern wall of the guard chamber. (1)
<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1993, The Dover Grand Shaft Project: Report on Archaeological Work at the Snargate Street Entrance (Unpublished document). SKE6833.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 1993. The Dover Grand Shaft Project: Report on Archaeological Work at the Snargate Street Entrance. |
