Malt Shovel House

MALT SHOVEL HOUSE, 17, DELF STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1069711
Date first listed:
19-May-1950
List Entry Name:
Malt Shovel House
Statutory Address:
MALT SHOVEL HOUSE, 17, DELF STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1069711
Date first listed:
19-May-1950
List Entry Name:
Malt Shovel House
Statutory Address 1:
MALT SHOVEL HOUSE, 17, DELF STREET

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MALT SHOVEL HOUSE, 17, DELF STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Kent
District:
Dover (District Authority)
Parish:
Sandwich
National Grid Reference:
TR 32917 58223

Details

1. 5275 DELF STREET (South-West Side) No 17 (Malt Shovel House) TR 3258 1/66 19.5.50.

II GV

2. C15 timber framed house, refronted in the C18 but preserving the coved overhanging of its 1st floor on a bressummer, 2 storeys, 2 windows. Ground floor painted brick, 1st floor plastered. Coved eaves. Casement windows 1st floor. C18 bay shop window ground floor with its glazing bars intact. Doorway with rectangular fanlight, flat hood over, beneath the overhang and supported on brackets. 6-panel fielded door. The lower half of the roof is hipped, but it terminates in the point of a gable set back behind it. There is a stone adjoining the front door dated 1756 which marks the beginning of the boundary of St Mary's Parish from that of St Peter's Parish.

Nos 17 to 21 (odd) form a group.

Listing NGR: TR3291358218

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
177366
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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