St George's Hall Star Snooker Centre

ST GEORGE'S HALL, GEORGE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1085410
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:
St George's Hall Star Snooker Centre
Statutory Address:
ST GEORGE'S HALL, GEORGE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1085410
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:
St George's Hall Star Snooker Centre
Statutory Address 1:
ST GEORGE'S HALL, GEORGE STREET
Statutory Address 2:
STAR SNOOKER CENTRE, GEORGE STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ST GEORGE'S HALL, GEORGE STREET
Statutory Address:
STAR SNOOKER CENTRE, GEORGE 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 38096 65002

Details

RAMSGATE GEORGE STREET TR 3865 SW (south side) 9/115 St. George's Hall, (Star Snooker Centre) GV II Assembly rooms, now clubhouse. 1840's. Stock brick, with red brick parapet, and with rendered details and slate roof. Single storey on rusticated basement with moulded cill band and rusticated quoins to cornice parapet, with C20 brick courses over with roof hipped to left, and gabled to right with stack. Six large casements with glazing bars in moulded surrounds with cornices, and 5 blank keyed window spaces in basement. Double panelled doors with cornice over to right in recessed wing with glazing bar sash in moulded surround over. Two glazing bar casements with boarded door to left return. Second recessed 2 storey wing to right, without the rendered details, with glazing bar sash on each floor. The building was originally the Assembly Rooms (Royal Assembly Rooms late C19), headquarters by late C19 of Volunteer Battalion; Shanly's Electric Theatre, opened December 1911, later the Star Cinema, and subsequently a furniture warehouse and now snooker club. Probably built by Woodland and Grundy, 2 local builders who developed Caven dish Street (q.v.) and George Street after 1839. (See Busson 66; Kelly's Directories 1884, 1898, 1911).

Listing NGR: TR3809665002

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
171745
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Busson, C, Book of Ramsgate, (), 66
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1884)
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1898)
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1911)

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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