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
Constituency
Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 November 2013
Type
Gate
Address
Gate piers and gates to the Army Ordnance Depot, Risborough Barracks, Shorncliffe Camp, Shepway, Kent
OS grid reference
TR 196 360
Coordinates
51.08183, 1.13472
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The east (and main) gate to the Army Ordnance Depot at Risborough Barracks in Shorncliffe Camp was built around 1899 to 1902.

The gate piers are made of red brick, accented with yellower brick and stone dressings, and feature wrought iron gates. Each pier has a square, black-painted brick base with a chamfered top, which includes a square drain hole cut through on a west-east axis. The piers are bi-partite and panelled, divided unequally by a stone band, with insets edged in curved section yellow bricks. The upper panel on the east elevation displays a terracotta plaque featuring the arms of the Army Ordnance Department, which includes the initials ‘A.O.D.’ and a shield with three cannon balls above three cannons. The piers are topped with a moulded brick and stone cornice and stone ball finials. The original decorative wrought iron gates remain intact.

Local climate

Gate piers and gates to the Army Ordnance Depot, Risborough Barracks, Shorncliffe Camp receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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