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New Street, DEAL, CT14 6JY

This is 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. This fairly small house may have had some industrial use in the past, judging by the pulley above the window at the top.

Narrow mainly 18th century street linking High Street and Middle Street.

This was Image in September 2016.

Contrasting styles of doorway on Middle street, opposite Golden Street in the Deal Middle Street conservation area.

Planning permission has been granted by Dover District Council under application number DOV/16/00931 for the “erection of a single storey rear extension, two front dormer roof extensions and installation of 3 rear roof lights”. A copy of the planning application had been tied to the downpipe to the left of the grey door. This was Image in January 2020.

Curtain makers and blind manufacturers.

On the right is the sign for The Ship Inn at number 141. The earliest record of a public house on the site dates from 1764. Between 1857 and 1865 it was known as The Seagull http://www.dover-kent.com/Ship-Deal.html

A permanently closed bookshop.

The Ship Inn on Middle Street dates from the late 18th or early 19th centuries and is grade II listed. It has a genuine maritime history, still reflected in many of the artefacts found within; in 1876 it was recorded as taking in survivors from the wreck of the steamship 'Strathclyde' that sank with the loss of 38 lives.