Building record TR 34 SW 2719 - Historic Building 5 London Road, Dover, Kent
Summary
Location
Grid reference | Centred TR 3132 4202 (18m by 11m) |
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Map sheet | TR34SW |
County | KENT |
District | DOVER, KENT |
Civil Parish | DOVER, DOVER, KENT |
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Full Description
Forms part of a late C19th/early C20th terrace on the north eastern side of London Road. The ground floor has a commercial use and retains many of the original shop front details including: the fluted pilasters and consoles over the party walls, the window and door surrounds the fascia and the moulded cornice which runs across the top of the ground floor. All these original features are painted blue to match the commercial signage. Three large modern lights are located above the cornice to illuminate the modern shop sign. There is a single door located just off centre within a small recessed porch. The returns towards the recessed door are glazed and there are large windows on both sides of the recessed area. A small area beneath the windows is covered with tiles. The upper stories are in an exposed red brick with seven windows. At the first floor level on the north western side of the façade there is a large canted oriel bay window divided into three parts by timber mullions and with a semi-circular pediment over the central section. The six other windows are grouped in three pairs, one pair at the first floor level and two at the second floor, aligning with the first floor windows. The pair of windows at the first floor level have a gauged flat brick arch over, while the tops of the second floor windows rest directly beneath the roof level, and all flat windows have small protruding sills. There is an eaves cornice in brick directly beneath the roof level with breaks for the windows, this is continued on the south eastern neighbour. There are two large gabled dormers at the roof level, aligning with the windows on the floors below. The southern has a semi-circular pediment over and the northern a triangular pediment. There is a modern gutter at the base of the roof with a gutter down pipe running from this over the south eastern party wall down to the pavement level. A further, possibly original gutter down pipe is located over the north western party wall, there is a fair amount of vegetation growth within the hopper of this down pipe and a large aerial is attached to it. Some of the brickwork across the façade is weathered and worn, this is particularly bad in the area surrounding the hopper of the northern gutter down pipe. A number of modern features attached to the brickwork in various locations it including a large quantity of untidy wiring located just above the cornice over the ground floor. Despite some areas of untidiness, the building is structurally sound and in a good condition with many surviving original features, particularly at the ground floor level.
The ground floor is almost entirely glazed for a commercial use. The door is located just off centre within a recessed porch area. It is in timber painted white with a two large panels, the upper of which is glazed. There are two windows on the returns towards the doors and three further, two equally sized ones on both sides of the recessed porch and a third narrower window on the far north western end of the façade. All have original timber frames painted blue. The seven windows on the upper floors and the two dormers at the roof level are all later plastic insertions. All windows are in a good condition with all panes present and intact.
The roof is steeply pitched and gabled, in slate with the gable ends over the northern and southern party walls. There are decorative ceramic ridge tiles. There are two tall red brick stacks located at the apex of the roof over both party walls. Two large gabled dormers align with the windows on the floors below. The roof is in a good condition with no slipped slates or bowing. (1)
<1> Kent County Council, 2019, Historic building condition asseesment and photographic survey of Dover Town Centre (Unpublished document). SKE52120.
Sources/Archives (1)
- <1>XY SKE52120 Unpublished document: Kent County Council. 2019. Historic building condition asseesment and photographic survey of Dover Town Centre. [Mapped feature: #102805 Building, ]
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Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Related Events/Activities (2)
- Non-Intrusive Event: Walkover and photographic survey of Dover Town - Area 3 London Road (EKE19204)
- Event Boundary: Walkover and photographic survey of Dover Town Centre (EKE19201)
Record last edited
Jun 19 2019 1:58PM