Gate piers and gates to the Army Ordnance Depot, Risborough Barracks, Shorncliffe Camp is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 November 2013. Gate.
Gate piers and gates to the Army Ordnance Depot, Risborough Barracks, Shorncliffe Camp
- WRENN ID
- ancient-ledge-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 November 2013
- Type
- Gate
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
East (and main) gate to the Army Ordnance Depot, c1899-1902.
MATERIALS: piers of red brick with yellower brick and stone dressings, wrought iron gates.
DESCRIPTION: each gate pier comprises: a square, black-painted brick plinth with a chamfered top (a square drain hole is cut through on a west-east axis); bi-partite panelled piers, divided unequally by a stone band, insets edged in curved section yellow bricks; upper panel to the east elevation houses a terracotta plaque depicting the arms of the Army Ordnance Department - ‘A.O.D.’ and a shield with three cannon balls above three cannon; moulded brick and stone cornice topped with stone ball finials. Original decorative wrought iron gates.
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