Lord Warden Hotel Lord Warden Square Dover, a Victorian hotel opened in September 1853. This hotel was used to break the journey to or from the Continent. Charles Dickens wrote of the Lord Warden Hotel:-

"Dover always goes to bed when I am going to Calais with a more brilliant display of lamp and candle than any other town. Mr & Mrs Birmingham, host and hostess of the Lord Warden Hotel are my much esteemed friends but they are too conceited about the comforts of that establishment when the Night Mail is starting. I know it is a good house to stay at and I don't want the fact insisted upon in all its warm bright windows at such an hour so I wait here on board the night packet for the South Eastern train to come with the Mail. Dover appears to me to be illuminated for some intensely aggravating festivities in my personal dishonour. All its noises smack of taunting praises of the land and dispraises of the gloomy sea and of me for going on it. The drums upon the heights have gone to bed or I know they would rattle taunts against me for having my unsteady footing upon this slippery deck. The many gas eyes of the Marine Parade twinkle in an offensive manner as if with derision."

After world war two it became Southern House headquarters of British Rail ferries and later Sealink UK