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The Golden Key

A Grade II Listed Building in Sandwich, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.2754 / 51°16'31"N

Longitude: 1.3398 / 1°20'23"E

OS Eastings: 633038

OS Northings: 158216

OS Grid: TR330582

Mapcode National: GBR X12.X50

Mapcode Global: VHLGS.56NM

Plus Code: 9F3378GQ+5W

Entry Name: The Golden Key

Listing Date: 3 February 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1263597

English Heritage Legacy ID: 177716

ID on this website: 101263597

Location: Sandwich, Dover, Kent, CT13

County: Kent

District: Dover

Civil Parish: Sandwich

Built-Up Area: Sandwich

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

Tagged with: Architectural structure

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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