Swedish Dance Theatre to North West of St Albans Court is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. Gymnasium. 1 related planning application.

Swedish Dance Theatre to North West of St Albans Court

WRENN ID
hidden-keep-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dover
Constituency
Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 June 1986
Type
Gymnasium
Address
Swedish Dance Theatre to North West of St Albans Court, Nonington
OS grid reference
TR 263 527
Coordinates
51.2287, 1.24054
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Swedish Dance Theatre, located to the northwest of St Albans Court, is a gymnasium built in 1938 by Joyce Adburgham for the English Gymnastic Society. This timber building is constructed from white deal with internal wall board lining and features an external facing of Western Red Cedar weatherboarding, shiplap, and logsiding on diagonal sheathing of Swedish red pine.

The interior showcases a Lamella roof made of British Columbia pine, which is exposed against a field of tongued and grooved roof boards that were originally painted blue. The building has seven bays on the northwest and southeast side elevations, with four-light window strips containing small panes in the five inner bays. Triangular buttresses are faced with diagonal boarding and are located below a deep cornice made up of seven bands of horizontal boarding. There is a timber projection along the northwest elevation.

At the northeast end, there is a flat-roofed single-storey kitchen and changing room wing that is horizontally boarded, along with a flat-roofed vertically boarded gallery wing set back above it. The southwest gable features a wide shaped end gable of horizontal boarding and a canted bay with eight narrow window strips that rise to eaves level, topped with a horizontally boarded cornice strip.

Inside, the southwest canted bay was originally furnished with a movable stage, while the northeast spectator gallery has a recent stage below it. The changing rooms still retain ceiling panels faced with lozenge-shaped boarding.

Local climate

Swedish Dance Theatre to North West of St Albans Court receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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