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Old houses in Mermaid Street, Rye, Sussex, c1955. Picturesque cobbled street with half-timbered houses. The Mermaid Inn, originally built in 1156, has a strong connection with the notorious Hawkhurst Gang of smugglers, who used it in the 1730s and 1740s as one of their strongholds. The current building, which is Grade II* listed, dates from 1420 and has 16th-century additions in the Tudor style.