Latitude: 51.3338 / 51°20'1"N
Longitude: 1.3157 / 1°18'56"E
OS Eastings: 631064
OS Northings: 164630
OS Grid: TR310646
Mapcode National: GBR X0G.9GY
Mapcode Global: VHLGC.RQFW
Plus Code: 9F3388M8+G7
Entry Name: 53, High Street
Listing Date: 7 October 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1223819
English Heritage Legacy ID: 419692
ID on this website: 101223819
Location: Minster, Thanet, Kent, CT12
County: Kent
District: Thanet
Civil Parish: Minster
Built-Up Area: Minster (Thanet)
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Tagged with: Cottage
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TR 3064-3164
5/27
MINSTER
HIGH STREET (East Side)
(Formerly listed as Old Oak Cottage Restaurant)
GV
II
House, now house and restaurant. C16 and late C17 and restored mid C20. Timber framed and clad with beaded weather boarding and applied timber with plaster infill on front elevation, and weather boarding to left return. Plain tiled roof. L-shaped plan, the present entrance front of two framed bays probably originally a return wing. Two storeys on plinth with bresummer fascia and moulded cornice to roof hipped to left (with return wing). Hipped dormer and stacks to rear left and right in front of ridge. Two three light-leaded mullioned casements with central single light on first floor and two three light mullioned casements on ground floor, that to left with sidelights. Half-glazed central door in moulded surround with enriched cornice and console brackets supporting segmental pediment enriched with strapwork and central cartouche with lion head.
Interior: clasped purlin roof, leaded mullioned lights with some coloured glass. Full frame visible.
The supposed hauntings at the house investigated by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (and the B.B.C.)!
Listing NGR: TR3106464630
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