THE OLD HOUSE AND WALLED FORECOURT

THE OLD HOUSE AND WALLED FORECOURT, 125, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1085392
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: THE OLD HOUSE AND WALLED FORECOURT
Statutory Address:: THE OLD HOUSE AND WALLED FORECOURT, 125, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1085392
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: THE OLD HOUSE AND WALLED FORECOURT
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD HOUSE AND WALLED FORECOURT, 125, HIGH STREET

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE OLD HOUSE AND WALLED FORECOURT, 125, 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:: TR 38004 65224

Details

RAMSGATE HIGH STREET TR 3765 SE & TR 3865 SW (north-east side) No. 125 (The Old House) and walled forecourt GV II * 0/d1

House. Early C18. Brown brick with red brick details and plain tiled roof. Two storeys and attic with basement on plinth with moulded wooden eaves cornice to roof with pedimented Dutch gables, 2 flat roofed dormers and stacks to rear left and to rear right. Regular fenestration of 4 glazing bar sashes- on each floor, all with gauged red brick heads, grouped in pairs with central door of 6 raised and fielded panels, the top 2 glazed. Doorcase with fluted Doric pilasters, triglyph frieze and modillioned pediment, and with 2 moulded steps. Basement openings to left and to right. Interior: panelled interiors survive both ground floor and first floor, generally plain beaded panelling to entrance hall and to left hand room, with marble fireplace and round headed recesses to left and right of fireplace. Similar panelling to upper rooms. Right hand ground floor room with panelled wainscot, dado rail and panelled filling, all raised and fielded, as are the shutters and door. Bolection moulded fireplace with panelled overmantel and domed fitted cupboards to left and to right. The top lit stair is a later infill replacing original newel stair. Walled forecourt, with 5 feet high brick walls projecting from house to rendered piers with caps, with low rendered front wall, now with late C20 breeze block courses over. The house heavily swathed in scaffolding at time of survey.

Listing NGR: TR3800465228

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Legacy System number:: 171804
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.