No 126 and Railed Forecourt
NO 126 AND RAILED FORECOURT, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1085357
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- No 126 and Railed Forecourt
- Statutory Address:
- NO 126 AND RAILED FORECOURT, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1085357
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- No 126 and Railed Forecourt
- Statutory Address 1:
- NO 126 AND RAILED FORECOURT, HIGH 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:
- NO 126 AND RAILED FORECOURT, HIGH 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:
- TR3798165211
Details
TR 3765 SE
8/186
13.9.74
RAMSGATE
HIGH STREET
(south-west side)
No. 126 and railed forecourt
GV
II
House, now offices. C18, altered mid C19. Red brick, part rendered,
and slate roof. Three storeys on plinth with horizontally rusticated
ground floor, moulded cill band to second floor and quoins to cornice
parapet with stacks to left and to right. Regular fenestration of
alternating glazing bar sashes and blank spaces on 2nd floor (5 bays
in all), 5 glazing bar sashes on 1st floor all in moulded surrounds and
4 sashes in rendered surrounds on ground floor. Central door of 6
panels with rectangular fanlight with integral lamp and with cornice
on consoles. Forecourt with iron rails set in rendered wall with
central wrought iron gate with simple uprights and dog rail. Large
brick wings to rear, 2 storeys, with 2 French windows on each floor
to rear with traceried rectangular fanlights and louvred shutters,
and geometric patterned cast iron balcony, otherwise with sashes and
glazing bar sashes. Marked on Collard and Hurst's 1822 plan, and
(probably) the 1735 plan of Ramsgate (see Busson, 70). Here in 1802
lived Robert Strong Cramp, who built the nearby Cannon Road brewery
(items 8/74 & 8/75).
Listing NGR: TR3798165211
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 171815
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Busson, C, Book of Ramsgate, (), 70
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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