Maison Dieu House in the 1930s.
This red brick Jacobean mansion is
possibly the oldest domestic building in the town.
Maison Dieu House was built in 1665,
after the Maison Dieu
was converted into a Navy Victualling Office, to serve
as a residence for the Agent Victualler. It continued
to be used for this purpose until after the Battle
of Waterloo (1815). Subsequently it was used by the
Ordnance Department as a residence for the officer
commanding the Royal Engineers at Dover until 1834.
After this it was sold as a private
residence. Mr R. W. Mummery, who was three times Mayor
of Dover, lived there and died there in 1869. In 1855
the famous mountaineer Albert Mummery was born in
the house.
