Listed Building: THE GOLDEN KEY (1263597)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 752, 1, 298
Date assigned 03 February 1987
Date last amended

Description

1. 5275 MARKET STREET No.15 (The Golden Key) TR 3358 1/293 II GV 2. House and shop. C1890 in free Jocobean style. Built of brick with front of applied timber framing with plaster infill. Tiled roof and brick chimney- stacks. 3 storeys, 3:lO windows. 2nd floor has 3 gables with dentilled bargeboards and pendants. Pilasters between gables with carved grotesque atlantes. Applied framing with patterns of close-studding diagonal braces and arcading. Three 4-light mullioned and transomed casements with leaded lights. Moulded bressumer on brackets. 1st floor has brick rusticated end piers with grotesque masks. Rest plastered and of 5 bays divided by pilasters surmounted by grotesque atlantes. Each bay has 2 round-headed casement windows with leaded lights which form a continuous arcade across the entire width of the floor. Decorative splat balustrading below windows. Moulded and dentilled cornice to ground floor. Ground floor has end brick fluted Ionic pilasters, early C20 shopfront, 2 columns with Ionic capitals and shop sign of large key painted gold. Listing NGR: TR3302358219

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Sources (1)

  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TR 3303 5821 (point)
Map sheet TR35NW
Civil Parish SANDWICH, DOVER, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 17 2006 11:07AM