Dunkirk End And Herring Hang Attached

TR 099 293 DYMCHURCH MILL ROAD (north side)

7/69 Dunkirk End and Herring Hang attached

GV II

House. Early-to-mid C18 with C19 alterations. Red brick with occasional grey headers in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof. Set back from road. 2 storeys and garret on brick plinth. Slightly projecting eaves with flat soffits. Brick-coped gable ends with brick kneelers. Gable end stack to right in front slope of roof and gable end stack to left. Irregular fenestration of two 6-pane glazing bar sashes only slightly recessed. 3 ground floor glazing bar sashes with segmental heads. Boarded door with segmental head off-centre to left, between 2 first floor windows. Integral rear lean-to. Datestone between first floor windows: A.K. R.H. 1736 Interior not inspected. Herring hang or kipper house. Probably C19. Attached to left gable end of house. Brick on submerged stone plinth with plain tile roof. Rectangular, much narrower than house and about two-thirds the height. Very small wooden hatch or smoke outlet in left gable end. towards apex, and 2 small rectangular vents towards base. Boarded door to rear against junction with house. Interior: down deep step. 7 smoke-blackened wooden bars remain intact, axially placed at intervals of about 1 foot, from 7 feet from ground to just below gable hitch. Corresponding brick ledges to long walls to take other ends of rods or speets (now gone) placed across the building and threaded with fish. Walls of hang smoke-blackened except at base.

Listing NGR: TR1000229234