Listed Building record TR 34 SW 720 - BLOCK NUMBER 32

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1900 to 1999

Location

Grid reference TR 3281 4354 (point)
Map sheet TR34SW
District DOVER, KENT
Civil Parish GUSTON, DOVER, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 34 SW GUSTON DUKE OF YORK'S ROYAL MILITARY SCHOOL
5/7 Block No. 32 (Roberts) 17.6.1983
GV II
Dormitory block. 1904 by Sir Henry Tanner. Pebbledash with red brick dressings and plain tiled roof. One of 8 identical H-shaped dormitory blocks arranged in symmetrical pairs on a radial axis to each side of the central dining hall and tower, of which blocks 31 and 30 are so altered as to be unlistable. Single storey and attic in Arts and Crafts Georgian style. Plinth, pilaster quoins and modillion eaves cornice. Projecting end gables treated as pediments, with gauged and keyed Diocletian windows, and 2 paired glazing bar sashes below. Interior courtyard with alternating glazing bar sashes and 3 segmentally headed semi-dormers on each of 3 faces or alternately pedimented dormers. Balustraded and columned open cupola in centre of main range, and smaller cupola-type air vents on side wings. Outer faces of wings with glazing bar sashes and flat roofed dormers. Small one storey C20 extensions on front courtyard. Rear courtyards with 1 storey original service blocks. Entry by half-glazed doors with pediments with large glazed end gables of westernmost wings. The blocks are asymmetrical, the disposition of segmental semi-dormers and pedimented gables designed to mirror adjacent paired block (Nos. 42 and 41, Nos. 39 and 40, Nos. 32 and 33), rather than the opposing wing of the same H-block.
Listing NGR: TR3281643541


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM