No 14 and Railed Area

NO 14 AND RAILED AREA, 14, NELSON CRESCENT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1045892
Date first listed:
03-Oct-1977
List Entry Name:
No 14 and Railed Area
Statutory Address:
NO 14 AND RAILED AREA, 14, NELSON CRESCENT
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1045892
Date first listed:
03-Oct-1977
List Entry Name:
No 14 and Railed Area
Statutory Address 1:
NO 14 AND RAILED AREA, 14, NELSON CRESCENT

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NO 14 AND RAILED AREA, 14, NELSON CRESCENT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Kent
District:
Thanet (District Authority)
Parish:
Ramsgate
National Grid Reference:
TR 38063 64532

Details

RAMSGATE NELSON CRESCENT TR 3864 NW 13/271 No. 14 and railed Area 3.10.77 GV II Terrace house, now guest house. 1798-1801, altered mid C20. Rendered and painted brick with slate roof. Four storeys with basement horizontally rusticated ground floor and parapet to roof with stack to rear centre. Two C20 louvred windows to 2nd and 3rd floors, with 2 full height sashes on first floor with verandah with corrugated plastic roof, but with good ornate iron work with panelled piers, valancing, scrolls and scrolled and bifurcated balustrade on iron brackets. Plate glass window on ground floor with glazed door to right with semi-circular fanlight in keyed and vermiculated surround at head of flight of 4 steps. Louvred light and half-glazed outer door to basement. Spear head rails, painted bright yellow. Wilkie Collins wrote his best selling novel "The Woman in White" here in 1881.

Listing NGR: TR3806364532

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
171904
Legacy System:
LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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