Bowls Pavilion
Bowls Pavilion, Royal Esplanade, Ramsgate
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086087
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bowls Pavilion
- Statutory Address:
- Bowls Pavilion, Royal Esplanade, Ramsgate
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086087
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bowls Pavilion
- Statutory Address 1:
- Bowls Pavilion, Royal Esplanade, Ramsgate
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:
- Bowls Pavilion, Royal Esplanade, Ramsgate
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 37216 64194
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 5 March 2024 to amend name of architect and date of construction, to add two references to Selected sources and to reformat the text to current standards
TR 3764 SW
17/343
RAMSGATE
ROYAL ESPLANADE (south side)
Bowls Pavilion
GV
II
Sports pavilion (bowls). 1928-29 by Basil C. Deacon of Franklin and Deacon of Luton, altered late C20. Painted and rendered brickwork, with boarded iron-framed extension. In origin identical to the adjacent croquet pavilion, with a front arcaded in antis topped with cornice, balustrade and flag pole, and flanked with flights of steps. Projecting from centre an iron-framed and boarded single-storey flat roofed extension, with central double doors. All windows boarded (for winter season). The arcade remains intact and unaltered behind the C20 extension, which does not structurally alter the original building.
Part of the Westcliff improvements undertaken by Franklin and Deacon of Luton, and included for group value.
Listing NGR: TR3721664194
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 171979
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Busson, C, Book of Ramsgate, (), 110-111
Other
Thanet Advertiser, 11 January 1929, 1
Bedfordshire Archives Service: CDE301
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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