Chatham Arms
CHATHAM ARMS, 56 AND 58, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1085341
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Chatham Arms
- Statutory Address:
- CHATHAM ARMS, 56 AND 58, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1085341
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Chatham Arms
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHATHAM ARMS, 56 AND 58, KING STREET
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHATHAM ARMS, 56 AND 58, KING STREET
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 38402 65118
Details
RAMSGATE KING STREET TR 3865 SW (north-west side) 9/239 No. 56/58 (Chatham Arms) II Public house. Early Cl9, altered later C19. Painted brick and slate roof. Two storeys and attic, with rounded corner piece, double semi- dormer to left and flat roofed dormer to right and stacks to left and to right. Two glazing bar sashes to left return, 2 to corner block and 2 sashes to right on first floor. Glazing bar sash and half-glazed and panelled door with semi-circular surround to left return, half-glazed door and mullioned and transomed window with cornice and panelled apron to corner block, and half-glazed door and mullioned window to right on ground floor with boarded passage door to end right. The corner block at least is shown on Collard and Hurst's 1822 map of Ramsgate, and was kept as a school for 37 years in the C19 before becoming a public house. (See Busson, Ramsgate, 99).
Listing NGR: TR3840265118
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 171872
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Busson, C, Book of Ramsgate, (), 99
Legal
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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