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Latitude: 51.21 / 51°12'35"N
Longitude: 1.3997 / 1°23'59"E
OS Eastings: 637553
OS Northings: 151133
OS Grid: TR375511
Mapcode National: GBR X24.0QC
Mapcode Global: VHMDG.6VVB
Plus Code: 9F33695X+XV
Entry Name: Building 129 (Guard House), South Barracks
Listing Date: 29 January 1997
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1259176
English Heritage Legacy ID: 463146
ID on this website: 101259176
Location: Lower Walmer, Dover, Kent, CT14
County: Kent
District: Dover
Civil Parish: Walmer
Built-Up Area: Deal
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Tagged with: Building
TR 35 SE DEAL DOVER ROAD, Lower Walmer
(North West side)
860/5/10011 Building 129 (Guard House),
South Barracks
GV II
Guard house and lock up. 1861, with Detention Block added late C19. Yellow stock brick with brick ridge stacks and slate hipped roof. L-shaped single-depth plan. Single storey; 4x7-bay verandah to guard house, 5-window late C19 cell block. EXTERIOR: The S guard house, painted white, has an overhanging roof forming a verandah on cast-iron columns, with 2 doorways to the centre of the long side with small lights each side, and a 6/6-pane sash in the end. The detention block has small segmental-arched lights with iron frames high beneath the eaves of the cells. INTERIOR not inspected, but reported to contain original room divisions. HISTORY: One of only two examples of guard houses in barracks built by the Barracks Department at the start of the Revolutionary War with France. Forms part of a group with the Officers' mess and infantry and cavalry barracks (qqv) in one of the most complete late C18 barracks in the country.
Listing NGR: TR3755351133
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