During a series of extensive rescue excavations, ahead of development in Dover’s town centre undertaken by Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit a building, a substantial Roman building consisting of 6 main rooms was uncovered lying on an east-west axis. This structure is today known as the ‘Painted House’ due to the vast quantity of painted wall plaster which was located, largely in situ, in association with it. The uncovered remains remain open to the public for viewing. Room 2, which was the best preserved of all of the excavated rooms, had a hypocaust heating system underlying an opus signinum floor. This heating system, which would have been fed by an external stoke hole, supplying heat to a set of channels beneath the floor and into vertical wall ducts. (location accurate to the nearest 2m based on available information)