Block Number 33 Wolseley is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1983. Dormitory block.

Block Number 33 Wolseley

WRENN ID
empty-cobalt-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dover
Constituency
Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1983
Type
Dormitory block
Address
Block Number 33 Wolseley, Guston
OS grid reference
TR 327 435
Coordinates
51.14408, 1.32656
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Block Number 33, known as Wolseley, is a dormitory block built in 1904 by Sir Henry Tanner for the Duke of York's Royal Military School. It features a pebbledash exterior with red brick dressings and a plain tiled roof. This block is one of eight identical H-shaped dormitory blocks arranged in symmetrical pairs around a central dining hall and tower, although blocks 31 and 30 have been altered and are not listed.

The building is single storey with an attic, designed in the Arts and Crafts Georgian style. It has a plinth, pilaster quoins, and a modillion eaves cornice. The projecting end gables are treated as pediments and feature gauged and keyed Diocletian windows, along with two paired glazing bar sashes below. The interior courtyard includes alternating glazing bar sashes and three segmentally headed semi-dormers on each of its three faces, or alternatively, pedimented dormers.

At the center of the main range is a balustraded and columned open cupola, with smaller cupola-type air vents on the side wings. The outer faces of the wings have glazing bar sashes and flat-roofed dormers. There are small one-storey 20th-century extensions on the front courtyard, while the rear courtyards contain one-storey original service blocks. Entry is through half-glazed doors topped with pediments and large glazed end gables on the westernmost wings. The blocks are asymmetrical, with the arrangement of segmental semi-dormers and pedimented gables designed to reflect the adjacent paired blocks (Nos. 42 and 41, Nos. 39 and 40, Nos. 32 and 33) rather than the opposite wing of the same H-block.

Local climate

Block Number 33 Wolseley receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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