Dunkirk End And Herring Hang Attached

Dunkirk End and Herring Hang is a house dating from the early to mid-18th century, with some 19th-century alterations. It is constructed of red brick with occasional grey headers in Flemish bond and features a plain tile roof. The building is set back from the road and has two storeys plus a garret, resting on a brick plinth. The eaves slightly project and have flat soffits, with brick-coped gable ends supported by brick kneelers. There are gable end stacks on both sides of the roof. The windows are irregularly arranged, featuring two 6-pane glazing bar sashes that are only slightly recessed, along with three ground floor glazing bar sashes that have segmental heads. The boarded door, which also has a segmental head, is located off-centre to the left, positioned between two first-floor windows. A datestone between the first-floor windows reads: A.K. R.H. 1736.

Attached to the left gable end of the house is the Herring Hang, or kipper house, which likely dates from the 19th century. It is built of brick on a submerged stone plinth and has a plain tile roof. This structure is rectangular, much narrower than the house, and about two-thirds its height. It features a very small wooden hatch or smoke outlet in the left gable end near the apex, along with two small rectangular vents near the base. There is a boarded door at the rear, where it connects to the house. Inside, accessed by a deep step, are seven smoke-blackened wooden bars that remain intact, placed at intervals of about one foot from seven feet above the ground to just below the gable hitch. There are corresponding brick ledges along the long walls that would have supported other ends of rods or speets, which are now missing, that were used to thread fish. The walls of the hang are smoke-blackened, except at the base.