GAS WORKS, OFFICES WITH RAILED AREA, DEPOT AND ADJOINING WALLS AND GATE

GAS WORKS, OFFICES WITH RAILED AREA, DEPOT AND ADJOINING WALLS AND GATE, BOUNDARY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1085429
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: GAS WORKS, OFFICES WITH RAILED AREA, DEPOT AND ADJOINING WALLS AND GATE
Statutory Address:: GAS WORKS, OFFICES WITH RAILED AREA, DEPOT AND ADJOINING WALLS AND GATE, BOUNDARY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1085429
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: GAS WORKS, OFFICES WITH RAILED AREA, DEPOT AND ADJOINING WALLS AND GATE
Statutory Address 1:: GAS WORKS, OFFICES WITH RAILED AREA, DEPOT AND ADJOINING WALLS AND GATE, BOUNDARY ROAD

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:: GAS WORKS, OFFICES WITH RAILED AREA, DEPOT AND ADJOINING WALLS AND GATE, BOUNDARY ROAD

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County:: Kent
District:: Thanet (District Authority)
Parish:: Ramsgate
National Grid Reference:: TR 38335 65457

Details

RAMSGATE BOUNDARY ROAD TR 3865 SW (north side) 9/62 Gas works, offices with railed area, depot and adjoin- ing walls and gate GV II Gas works offices and depot with walls. Late C19. Red brick and cream- coloured terracotta, with plain tiled roof. Two storeys and basement with moulded string course, cornice and parapet, with parapet gables and stacks to end left and to end right. Central projecting porch with octagonal turret and leaded ogee dome. Five light mullioned and transomed window to left, with coupled 2 light windows below, and large stair window, of 3 lights, the ground floor base sloping with the stairline. Five light to right with 2 dividing panels, and picture window with top lights on ground floor. Top storey of turret with label surround to door to balcony and gantry with ornate wrought iron scrolled bracket-rails to large clock. Two sashes in chamfered reveals on 1st floor, and double half-glazed doors on ground floor, with rectangular fanlight in moulded Gibbs-style surround, with ornate coat of arms in semi-circular panel over (part of the arches and pendentives which transform the rectangular ground floor porch to the semi-octagonal turret). Four moulded steps. All windows, door and decorative surrounds and details executed in terracotta. Large basement openings. Simple rails with scrolled uprights to steps and area. Depot building adjoining to right in brown brick with red brick details, of 2 storeys, with pedimented gable with roundel, on 3 pilaster-buttresses. Two wooden casements on 1st floor 2 semi-circular headed openings ground floor. Right return (long side) and rear, whitewashed with irregular openings. Wall to left (west) about 12 feet high, on plinth, with capped decorative pilaster (in same style as depot building buttresses) and coping. Stepped up 4 times to gateway, with simple iron gate and gate pier to west. Wall returned to adjoin main block with passageway entrance.

Listing NGR: TR3833565457

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Legacy System number:: 171691
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.