Block Number 14 Gymnasium and Swimming Pool is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1983. Gymnasium and swimming pool.
Block Number 14 Gymnasium and Swimming Pool
- WRENN ID
- buried-niche-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1983
- Type
- Gymnasium and swimming pool
- Address
- Block Number 14 Gymnasium and Swimming Pool, Guston
- OS grid reference
- TR 327 436
- Coordinates
- 51.14484, 1.32605
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Block number 14 is a gymnasium and swimming pool built in 1909 by Sir Henry Tanner. The building features a pebbledashed exterior with red brick dressings and a plain tiled roof. The main block is designed to resemble a Roman basilica, with buttressed sides and a modillion eaves cornice on a half-hipped roof that includes a range of corner lights along its entire length. Above the entrance narthex or porch, there are gauged Diocletian windows in the gable, flanked by circular windows on either side of half-glazed doors that have semi-circular fanlights and segmented pediments. The side elevations also display rows of Diocletian windows. The connecting block has glazing bar sashes on either side of half-glazed doors topped with a flat cornice hood. The interior was in the process of restoration at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Block Number 14 Gymnasium and Swimming Pool 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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