Listed Building: WALL, GATES AND LODGES TO FORMER ROYAL MARINES SCHOOL OF MUSIC, EAST BARRACKS (1069748)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 860, 5, 10015
Date assigned 08 February 1974
Date last amended

Description

TR 35 SE DEAL THE STRAND (west side), Lower Walmer 860/5/10015 Wall, gates & lodges to former Royal Marines School of Music, East Barracks 8.2.74 (Formerly Listed as: THE STRAND, Walmer (west side) Wall and gates to the Royal Marines School of Music) GV II Pair of entrance lodges, gates and perimeter walls. c1813 by Edward Holl, architect for the Navy Board. Yellow stock bricks with rubbed brick heads and hipped slate roofs, stone dressings and iron gates. Rectangular single-depth plan lodges face each other across the inner side of gateway. Lodges each a single storey; 5-window range; rubbed brick flat arches to 6/6-pane sashes, and end doorways with flush 4-panel doors. Gateway has openwork iron piers decorated with anchors and telescopes, swept gates and wickets either side within short lengths of railing, with spear finials; plain brick piers and coped wall with interval piers. Subsidiary features: W alls extend for approximately 200 metres either side of the gateway parallel with the front of the Royal School of Music. Encloses the forecourt to the Royal School of Music (qv), formerly a naval hospital. Listing NGR: TR3677351934

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  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TR 3771 5198 (point)
Map sheet TR35SE
Civil Parish DEAL, DOVER, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 17 2006 11:07AM