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Exchange Street, DEAL, CT14 6LN

Narrow street linking Middle Street with Beach Street. The shingle of the beach can be seen in the background. The far building on the right is the Boatmen's Rooms, the former Seamen's Mission - see Image

This was Image in November 2013.

160 Middle Street is the house whose frontage is clad in scaffolding. Planning permission has been granted by Dover District Council under application number DOV/13/00786 for the “installation of replacement windows, painting of masonry, timberwork and metalwork and installation of window boxes to front windows”. This was Image and Image from the WSW, both taken in May 2019.

Narrow street running north/south in the area between Beach Street and High Street. Most of these houses are grade II listed, including for example the white building on the right of the photo, no 179, and the brick faced building beyond, no 177, both dating from the early 19th century - see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253825 and www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1363473 respectively.

This is the view from Beach Street looking along Dolphin Street. 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 Mary Hougham Almshouses are to be found in Griffin Street. The aim is "To procure, maintain and let 12 Almshouses in Deal to aged and infirm Deal boatmen and subject thereto poor, aged and infirm persons who are inhabitants of the former Borough of Deal." See also https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6569175

Planning permission has been granted by Dover District Council under application number DOV 16/01361 for “insertion of 1 roof light to rear roof slope, installation of a roof lantern and replace windows with folding sliding doors to existing rear extension, insertion of replacement window to first floor rear elevation, replacement of front entrance door and formation of new access through garden wall and blocking of opening between garden and 13 Dolphin Street, and alterations to parapet of rear extension (amended description)”. This was Image after alterations to its frontage had taken place.

This was Image before alterations to its frontage had taken place.