Bon Secours Nursing Home
BON SECOURS NURSING HOME, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1085347
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Bon Secours Nursing Home
- Statutory Address:
- BON SECOURS NURSING HOME, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1085347
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Bon Secours Nursing Home
- Statutory Address 1:
- BON SECOURS NURSING HOME, LONDON ROAD
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:
- BON SECOURS NURSING HOME, LONDON ROAD
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 37104 64340
Details
RAMSGATE LONDON ROAD TR 3764 SW (South- side) 17/250 Bon Secours Nursing Home 5.11.74 GV II House, now nursing home. Core built c.1795, extended C19 and especially 1884. Stock brick the main block rendered with flint extensions and plain-tiled roofs. Entrance front: 3 storeys rendered ground and 1st floor with string course to shaped gabled 2nd floor. Hipped roof with flat railed central portion with stacks to left and to right with shaped gables to return elevation. Wooden casement with label hood in gable, 3 to 2nd floor, 3 mullioned and transomed windows with label hoods to 1st floor and 2 to ground floor with double half-glazed doors in arched moulded surround in central projecting porch with pierced parapet. The corners of this central block are recessed and curved with elaborate scrolls incised into the render. 2 storey hipped wings to left and to right with mullioned and transomed and label hooded windows to each floor, extended to right by 1 storey C20 weather boarded range with flint tower behind, and to left by projecting 2 storey stock brick wing, dated 1884 in shaped gable, with 2 sashes on each floor of each face. Garden front: Central 3 storey hipped block (the original late C18 range), with attic, and later C19 cross-wing behind with shaped gables. Single dormer, 3 wooden casements and 1 small light to left on 2nd floor, and 3 on 1st floor with tented canopy. Mullioned and transomed bays on ground floor with glazed door to centre left with verandah, also carried across right hand wing. Two storey hipped wing to right with sash on first floor, mullioned ground floor openings. End wing to right of 2 storeys, with canted bays of differing sizes on 1st and ground floors. Gabled 2 storey flint wing to left with mullioned and transomed window and door ensemble. At end left is a round, battlemented flint tower, certainly there in 1806 (as illustrated in contemporary prints). At the end of range of outbuildings to the right (east) are 2 further flint buildings, the remains of other flint towers illustrated 1806. The outbuildings here include a laundry building with an open arcaded ground floor with segmental cornice, and corniced windows. Interior: large staircase hall with wreathed handrail to stair and gallery. The house was built c1795 for Joseph Ruse and named Belmont. Purchased and the home of Earl of Darnley 1801-1817 (re-named West Cliff House), seat of Warre family 1877-1904. Princess Victoria was a frequent visitor to this, one of Ramsgate's most important seats. A nursing home since 1949 (See Busson, Ramsgate, 110 & 120).
Listing NGR: TR3710464340
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 171883
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Busson, C, Book of Ramsgate, (), 110 120
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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