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High Street, DEAL, CT14 6BE

No. 148 High Street, on the corner of Farrier Street. A shop selling home and garden accessories and gifts.

Opposite a car park used as a market on Saturdays.

One could just make out the name of this former business above the ground floor window. With scaffolding having been erected to roof height, it appeared that it was being renovated.

The shop stands out for its rather shabby appearance and for the cigarette- dispensing machine attached to the wall by the entrance door.

This is on a house in Middle Street in Deal. It is all part of the Middle Street Deal Conservation Area, which in 1968 was the first Conservation Area in Kent to be designated. Its distinctive character is typified by the central axis of mainly Georgian terraced houses clustered around Middle Street and extending up to High Street or Beach Street. The press gang operated around these streets and smugglers' hiding places are still being found in local houses. The streets once thronged with soldiers, sailors and fishermen. Almost every building was either a pub, a lodging house or a brothel. As it was the boatmen's area, the street was crowded with pilots, net-makers, sail-makers, rope-makers and boatbuilders. Most of the numerous pubs have closed but many of the old inns survive as private houses and bear the original pub names - the Deal Cutter and the Scarborough Cat for example.

Farrier Street connects High Street with Beach Street to the north of Deal town centre. It crosses Middle Street and forms part of the Deal Middle Street conservation area that comprises a network of tightly packed Georgian houses once home to fishermen and smugglers.

The plaque on this house in Middle Street in Deal states that Charles Hawtrey (1914 - 1988) lived there. He starred in numerous 'Carry On' films. This is all part of the Middle Street Deal Conservation Area, which in 1968 was the first Conservation Area in Kent to be designated. Its distinctive character is typified by the central axis of mainly Georgian terraced houses clustered around Middle Street and extending up to High Street or Beach Street. The press gang operated around these streets and smugglers' hiding places are still being found in local houses. The streets once thronged with soldiers, sailors and fishermen. Almost every building was either a pub, a lodging house or a brothel. As it was the boatmen's area, the street was crowded with pilots, net-makers, sail-makers, rope-makers and boatbuilders. Most of the numerous pubs have closed but many of the old inns survive as private houses and bear the original pub names - the Deal Cutter and the Scarborough Cat for example.

Seen from Middle Street, with the backs of buildings on High Street in the background.

Grade II listed. https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101363452-melbourne-deal