Royal Sailors Rest
ROYAL SAILORS REST, HARBOUR PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1085378
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Sailors Rest
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL SAILORS REST, HARBOUR PARADE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1085378
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Sailors Rest
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL SAILORS REST, HARBOUR PARADE
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:
- ROYAL SAILORS REST, HARBOUR PARADE
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 38351 64800
Details
RAMSGATE HARBOUR PARADE TR 3864 NW (north side) 13/144 Royal Sailors Rest GV II Hotel, now commercial premises. 1904. Red brick with faience tiles and slate roof. Four storeys and attic. Rusticated quoins to ground floor with cornice, with 4 three storey panelled pilasters with freely- treated capitals to frieze bearing the words Royal Sailors Rest. Dentil cornice to roof with pinnacles to left and to right, arcaded parapet with leaded semi-dormers to left and to right, and central scrolled and shaped gable with bullseye window over 2 keyed round headed openings with sashes. Corniced stacks to left and to right. Four French windows on 3rd and 2nd floors, square headed to left and to right and round headed to centre, all with moulded faience surrounds and balconies, with 6 round headed French windows in keyed round-headed surrounds on 1st floor with continuous balcony. C20 plate glass shop front on ground floor with panelled door to left, half-glazed door, and double half-glazed doors to right. Erected in 1904 by the Royal British and Foreign Sailors' Society as a Sailors hostel, and subsequently used as a hotel. (See Busson, Ramsgate, 82).
Listing NGR: TR3835164800
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 171767
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Busson, C, Book of Ramsgate, (), 82
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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