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Administration Block, Dover Young Offenders Institution

A Grade II Listed Building in Dover, Kent

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Latitude: 51.1166 / 51°6'59"N

Longitude: 1.2983 / 1°17'53"E

OS Eastings: 630934

OS Northings: 140433

OS Grid: TR309404

Mapcode National: GBR W1M.YWY

Mapcode Global: VHLHJ.G66B

Plus Code: 9F33478X+J8

Entry Name: Administration Block, Dover Young Offenders Institution

Listing Date: 8 July 1998

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1375598

English Heritage Legacy ID: 469562

ID on this website: 101375598

Location: Aycliff, Dover, Kent, CT17

County: Kent

District: Dover

Civil Parish: Dover

Built-Up Area: Dover

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

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TF 3140 DOVER WESTERN HEIGHTS


685/7/10010 Admin block, Dover Young
Offenders Institution

GV II


Formerly known as: Officers' Quarters, Western Heights. Officers quarters within citadel, now offices. 1861, by the Inspector-General of Fortifications. Red brick with limestone dressings and flat asphalt roof. Gothic Revival style. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement; 15-window range. Similar front and rear elevations have deep projecting centre bays, cornice and deep parapet to a former bomb-proof roof. The entrance is flanked b buttresses with a flat 2-centre archway and steps up to a mid C20 door beneath a pair of gun ports and a panel wit the royal coat of arms dated 1861. Windows have paired Tudor-arched lights with 4/4-pane sashes under flat-ground-floor and 4-centre arched first-floor arches, with a mid-point Tudor-arched doorway to the inner elevation with flanking lights, under cross-light oriels with weathered coping to front and rear. Large clasping buttress to the ashlar ends, which are divided into 3 bays, the middle one narrower with gun recesses and splayed side INTERIOR: The entrance hall has a large mid C20 stair, and rooms off an axial round-arched passage the length of the building. The basement contains former stables, stores and water tanks. HISTORY: Formed the quarters and mess for the officers in the Western Heights Citadel (SAM), which was built in the 1800s. The origin accommodation was all in casemates. With its gun ports and bomb-proof earth-filled roof, it was partly intended a defensible keep in the event of the Citadel being stormed. The level of defence is representative of a time of rapid developing artillery and fortifications.


Listing NGR: TR3093440433

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