Listed Building record TR 35 NW 324 - THE GOLDEN KEY

Summary

House and shop built in circa 1890 in free Jacobean style. Built of brick with front of applied timber framing with plaster infill. Tiled roof and brick chimney-stacks. 3 storeys, 3:10 windows. 2nd floor has 3 gables with dentilled bargeboards and pendants. Pilasters between gables with carved grotesque atlantes.

Location

Grid reference Centred TR 3302 5821 (25m by 11m)
Map sheet TR35NW
District DOVER, KENT
Civil Parish SANDWICH, DOVER, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
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


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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Aug 2 2024 12:46PM