TOWN HALL HOUSE

A NAVAL CANNON EMBEDDED IN THE WALL OF NO 35, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344081
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1951
List Entry Name:: TOWN HALL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: A NAVAL CANNON EMBEDDED IN THE WALL OF NO 35, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344081
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1951
List Entry Name:: TOWN HALL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: A NAVAL CANNON EMBEDDED IN THE WALL OF NO 35, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:: TOWN HALL HOUSE, 35, HIGH STREET

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

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

Location

Statutory Address:: A NAVAL CANNON EMBEDDED IN THE WALL OF NO 35, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: TOWN HALL HOUSE, 35, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Kent
District:: Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
Parish:: New Romney
National Grid Reference:: TR 06416 24790

Details

1. 1449 HIGH STREET (South East Side)

28.8.51 No 35 (Town Hall House). - A Naval Cannon embedded in the wall of No 35. TR 0624 1/30

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2. Dated 1750. Built as the Town Gaol, or Small-port, as it was called. Later the residence of the Caretaker of the adjoining Town Gaol. 2 storeys attics and basement painted brick, Tiled roof and 1 hipped dormer. Brick modillion eaves cornice, the bricks inserted diagonally with the points protruding. 2 casement windows with small square leaded panes. The westernmost windows on the ground floor and basement, which presumably communicated with the cells, still have iron grilles over them. Doorcase up 4 steps with a flat hood over and door of 6 fielded panels. Over the doorcase is a cartouche of the town arms, flanked by pilasters forming a frame with a cornice over, and below the name of the Mayor at the date of the erection of the building: Robert Langdon, 1750. Embedded in the left side of the wall is a late C18 or early C19 cast iron naval cannon.

Nos 27 to 43 (odd) form a group.

Listing NGR: TR0641724787

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Legacy System number:: 175033
Legacy System:: LBS

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