Dover Castle Dover, England
Listed Building Data
Dover Castle has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1070326
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 7 March 1974
- Name
- DOVER CASTLE
- Location
- DOVER CASTLE
- Parish
- Dover
- District
- Dover
- County
- Kent
- Grid Reference
- TR3247941938
- Easting
- 632479.1984
- Northing
- 141937.9829
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
1050 DOVER CASTLE TR 3241 1/47 TR 34 SW 7/47 I 2. Norman keep C.1155 of ragstone ashlar blocks picked out flints with Caen stone dressings. Around the keep are ranges of C18 houses of 2 to 3 storeys ashlar with flint galleting. Round headed windows. Surrounding these ranges are 2 concentric rings of walls and towers dating from Mediaeval times. Beneath the castle are a whole series of subterranean passages dating from the C13 and improved for defence during the Napoleonic period. Ancient Monument.
Listing NGR: TR3249141696
