The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5277 HARMER STREET (North West Side)
Nos 1 to 45 (odd) No 47A TQ 6574 SW 2/92
II GV
2. A terrace circa 1840. 4 storeys stock brick. Parapet and dropped eaves cornice between 3rd and 2nd floor. Stringcourse between 2nd and 1st floors. 2 sashes each with moulded architraves and cornices above 1st floor windows. Most glazing bars intact. Some s1t floor cast iron balconies remain. The ground floors were originally rusticated stucco with round-headed windows. The doorcases had fanlights and pilasters. Many now have modern shopfronts though a few have mid C19 shopfronts with pilasters and panelled risers.
Nos 1 to 45 (odd) and 47A form a group together with Nos 2 to 48 (even) Harmer Street, the British Tar Public House, Milton Road and Nos 1 to 9 (consec) Berkeley Crescent, (the British Tar Public House is a local interest building).
Listing NGR: TQ6504074229

Description from record TQ 67 SE 1186:
Second World War public air raid shelter in the basement of the former Coop, 3-11 Harmer Street, Gravesend. Its form and design are unknown but it is likely to have involved strengthening of the basement with timber struts. The shelter would have been decommissioned by the end of the Second World War in Europe in 1945, and the strutting removed in 1946. The building remains, now in private use. The basement survives but is not accessible.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey : The basement is not accessible but the building's exterior is visible from the public footpath outside.
Tourism Potential : Slight value as a site to be noticed on a defence heritage walking trail.
Condition : unknown
Date of visit : 24/01/06

Gravesend Council, 30/08/39, Minutes of Gravesend Council's Watch Committee (Bibliographic reference). SKE13923.