During excavations undertaken by Canterbury Archaeological Trust, ahead of the rebuilding of the Townwall Street filling Station, Dover, a complex series of stratified archaeological deposits were revealed representing activity at the site between the early Medieval period and later post medieval periods. In period 2, following the densely packed timber and stone buildings of the period 1 occupation of the site, there appears to have been a marked hiatus at the end of the 13th century, when the structures on most of the plots were abandoned. Building 44 was situated on plot C at the south western side of the site. It had been severely damaged by later features but consisted of the remains of two substantial walls of flint and greensand with a chalk and rubble core, bonded in a cream gritty mortar.

The walls are supported by a broad foundations of chalk and greensand rubble set in a brown loam with pebbles. Fragmentary traces of a clay and chalk with pebble floor were uncovered within the area encompassed by the walls. The size of the walls and foundations suggests two storeys. The surviving internal dimensions are 4.7m (NW-SE) by 3.55m (NE-SW). The relationship of this buildings north-east wall the later building 49 (period 3 malt dring kiln) suggests that it was still standing in the late 17th - 18th century but perhaps only as a fragmentary boundary wall. (1)

<1> Keith Parfitt, Barry Corke and John Cotter, 2006, Townwall Street, Dover: Excavations 1996 (Monograph). SKE31840.