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Middle Street, DEAL, CT14 6JW

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.

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.

Planning permission has been granted by Dover District Council under application number DOV/15/01198 for the “installation of a roof light to front roof-slope, two replacement sash windows, glazing to kitchen roof, conversion of doorway to window, rear roof extension, including a roof lantern and erection of a replacement rear balcony and elevational alterations (existing terrace arrangement including ground floor extension to be demolished)” and under application number DOV/15/01198/A for the “change from lead roof to 2nd floor extension to single ply membrane”. Although the road past the house was closed for vehicles, at its junction with Coppin Street, room had been left for pedestrians to access the road beyond. These are the Image seen from the west-northwest.

Planning permission has been granted by Dover District Council under application number DOV/15/01198 for the “installation of a roof light to front roof-slope, two replacement sash windows, glazing to kitchen roof, conversion of doorway to window, rear roof extension, including a roof lantern and erection of a replacement rear balcony and elevational alterations (existing terrace arrangement including ground floor extension to be demolished)” and under application number DOV/15/01198/A for the “change from lead roof to 2nd floor extension to single ply membrane”. Although the road past the house was closed for vehicles, room had been left for pedestrians to access the road beyond. These are the Image seen from the south. This was Image in September 2020, which shows the house after the alterations had been completed.

These were the Image that were taking place in February 2017.

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.

Grade II listed. https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101343707-98-middle-street-deal