Churchill House School With Railed Area
CHURCHILL HOUSE SCHOOL WITH RAILED AREA, 40, 41 AND 42, SPENCER SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086059
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Churchill House School With Railed Area
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCHILL HOUSE SCHOOL WITH RAILED AREA, 40, 41 AND 42, SPENCER SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086059
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Churchill House School With Railed Area
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCHILL HOUSE SCHOOL WITH RAILED AREA, 40, 41 AND 42, SPENCER SQUARE
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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.
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:
- CHURCHILL HOUSE SCHOOL WITH RAILED AREA, 40, 41 AND 42, SPENCER SQUARE
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 37866 64523
Details
RAMSGATE SPENCER SQUARE TR 3764 NE (north side) 12/382 Nos. 40, 41 + 42 (Churchill House School) 13.8.68 with railed area GV II Terrace row, now school. Circa 1802, rebuilt or remodelled circa 1840. Rendered with slate roof. Three storey and basement to main block, 4 storey end block to left. Four storey canted bay to left, each storey with modillion cornices, the top storey rising above parapet level. Canted oriel on 2nd Floor to right and 2 storey and basement canted bay below, and to centre left, all with sashes, and French doors on first floor with 2 central metal casements on 2nd floor. Tented verandah across whole first floor, with simple scrolls to piers and Gothick panelled rails. Two central doors of 6 raised and fielded panels the top 2 glazed, in fluted surrounds, and boarded door to left in C20 single storey porch. Simple rails to basement areas with urn finial principals. Left return (to Royal Road); 4 storeys with irregularly spaced glass. Ionic pilasters to cornice parapet and stacks to left. Three window bay section to right, with only 1 space on 2nd and 2 spaces on 1st floors glazed. Shallow 4 storey bay to left with different storey levels to right hand section. Half-glazed door in moulded surround to centre left, with different storey levels to right hand section. Half-glazed door in moulded surround to centre left. The facade treatment of pilaster and cornice runs over the adjacent number 1 + 3 Royal Road, and is taken from the decorative motifs of the rest of Royal Road (laid out 1827-36), and disguises the earlier construction of these buildings, possibly still the 1802 structures built for James Townley. See Busson 108-9.
Listing NGR: TR3786664523
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 172018
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Busson, C, Book of Ramsgate, (), 108-109
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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