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Old Dover Road, CANTERBURY, CT1 3DE

Photographed on the evening of the hottest day of the year to date, at the end of a very hot week at the beginning of September 2023.

Planning permission has been granted by Canterbury City Council under application number CA/20/02186 for a "three-storey building with a basement, comprising 27 student apartments (including warden's accommodation) with communal facilities including cycle and refuse storage, amenity areas and three 'operational' parking spaces for service/maintenance vehicles, following demolition of the existing dwelling and a garage". Taken during a photographic outing on Christmas Day afternoon.

As the ‘to let’ board indicates, this is student accommodation.

The Hoystings, number 56 Old Dover Road, is an early 18th century classical house that has been Gothicized in the early 19th century. Constructed of red brick under a tile roof. All the windows, including the dormers, have obtusely pointed heads and Gothic divisions. There is a stuccoed Gothic doorway with cornice and parapet. There is a 19th century extension on the garden side. Now apartments. Listed, grade II*, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1260634 Canterbury is a small historic city on the River Stour in Kent, some 54 miles southeast of London. Occupied since prehistoric times, it became an important Roman city. In 672, the see of Canterbury gained authority over the entire English Church. After the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket at the cathedral in 1170, pilgrims from all parts of Christendom came to visit his shrine until the Dissolution. Today, Canterbury is a popular tourist destination and one of the most-visited cities in the United Kingdom. The city has a substantial student population, with four university campuses.

As seen from the A2050 Old Dover Road. This line leads from Dover (via various stations including Bekesbourne) towards Canterbury East. In the background is Nunnery Fields roadbridge.

Numbers 18 to 22 Oaten Hill are an early 19th century terrace. Constructed of stuccoed brick under hipped tile roofs. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1241143 Canterbury is a small historic city on the River Stour in Kent, some 54 miles southeast of London. Occupied since prehistoric times, it became an important Roman city. In 672, the see of Canterbury gained authority over the entire English Church. After the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket at the cathedral in 1170, pilgrims from all parts of Christendom came to visit his shrine until the Dissolution. Today, Canterbury is a popular tourist destination and one of the most-visited cities in the United Kingdom. The city has a substantial student population, with four university campuses.

Numbers 16 and 17 Oaten Hill are an early 19th century pair of houses. Constructed of brick, number 16 stuccoed, number 17 painted, all under a hipped tile roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1260646 Canterbury is a small historic city on the River Stour in Kent, some 54 miles southeast of London. Occupied since prehistoric times, it became an important Roman city. In 672, the see of Canterbury gained authority over the entire English Church. After the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket at the cathedral in 1170, pilgrims from all parts of Christendom came to visit his shrine until the Dissolution. Today, Canterbury is a popular tourist destination and one of the most-visited cities in the United Kingdom. The city has a substantial student population, with four university campuses.

Number 23 Oaten Hill (on the right) also has a front to Old Dover Road. The front to Oaten hill is stuccoed, the ground floor rusticated. The front to Old Dover Road is red brick. The building has four parallel ranges under a tile roof. Now flats. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1241188 Canterbury is a small historic city on the River Stour in Kent, some 54 miles southeast of London. Occupied since prehistoric times, it became an important Roman city. In 672, the see of Canterbury gained authority over the entire English Church. After the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket at the cathedral in 1170, pilgrims from all parts of Christendom came to visit his shrine until the Dissolution. Today, Canterbury is a popular tourist destination and one of the most-visited cities in the United Kingdom. The city has a substantial student population, with four university campuses.