Dunkirk End and Herring Hang Attached
DUNKIRK END AND HERRING HANG ATTACHED, MILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344176
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Dunkirk End and Herring Hang Attached
- Statutory Address:
- DUNKIRK END AND HERRING HANG ATTACHED, MILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344176
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Dunkirk End and Herring Hang Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUNKIRK END AND HERRING HANG ATTACHED, MILL ROAD
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- DUNKIRK END AND HERRING HANG ATTACHED, MILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dymchurch
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 09932 29276
Details
TR 099 293 DYMCHURCH MILL ROAD (north side)
7/69 Dunkirk End and Herring Hang attached
GV II
House. Early-to-mid C18 with C19 alterations. Red brick with occasional grey headers in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof. Set back from road. 2 storeys and garret on brick plinth. Slightly projecting eaves with flat soffits. Brick-coped gable ends with brick kneelers. Gable end stack to right in front slope of roof and gable end stack to left. Irregular fenestration of two 6-pane glazing bar sashes only slightly recessed. 3 ground floor glazing bar sashes with segmental heads. Boarded door with segmental head off-centre to left, between 2 first floor windows. Integral rear lean-to. Datestone between first floor windows: A.K. R.H. 1736 Interior not inspected. Herring hang or kipper house. Probably C19. Attached to left gable end of house. Brick on submerged stone plinth with plain tile roof. Rectangular, much narrower than house and about two-thirds the height. Very small wooden hatch or smoke outlet in left gable end. towards apex, and 2 small rectangular vents towards base. Boarded door to rear against junction with house. Interior: down deep step. 7 smoke-blackened wooden bars remain intact, axially placed at intervals of about 1 foot, from 7 feet from ground to just below gable hitch. Corresponding brick ledges to long walls to take other ends of rods or speets (now gone) placed across the building and threaded with fish. Walls of hang smoke-blackened except at base.
Listing NGR: TR1000229234
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 175527
- 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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