Former Regency Hotel
Former Regency Hotel, Royal Crescent
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086093
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former Regency Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- Former Regency Hotel, Royal Crescent
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086093
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former Regency Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former Regency Hotel, Royal Crescent
- Statutory Address 2:
- Former Regency Hotel, St Augustine's Road
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:
- Former Regency Hotel, Royal Crescent
- Statutory Address:
- Former Regency Hotel, St Augustine's Road
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 37798 64395
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 March 2025 to amend the name and reformat the text to current standards
TR 3764 SE
18/362
RAMSGATE
ST AUGUSTINE'S ROAD (south side)
Royal Crescent (Former Regency Hotel)
(Formerly listed as Royal Crescent (The Regency Hotel))
GV
II
House row, now hotel. Started 1826 for James Townley. Entrance front (to St Augustine's Road) highly irregular, of many dates largely stock brick, being actually the rear of the Crescent, the main facade of which faces the sea, southwards. Along St Augustine's Road is a wall, about eight feet high, originally the rear wall of the various house plots. In this wall are several door openings, mostly blocked, round headed, of which four have heavily rusticated surrounds; C20 canopy to hotel entrance.
South front: rendered with slate roof. Four storeys and basement, the central section and end pavilions taller, and with attics. The treatment of the facade shows slight variations, reflecting the piecemeal construction of what were originally twenty separate houses. Pilaster strips to ground and first floors, supporting a plinth, with giant pilasters over to second and third floors, and with balustraded parapet.
Left hand pavilion and centrepiece with attic storey of six and seven windows respectively, right hand pavilion with balustrade and two flat roofed dormers. Large scrolled gable to right return. Double hipped and returned roofs to left hand pavilion. Stacks ranged left to right.
The original house units in the pavilions and centre piece of three bays, the ranges in between irregularly alternate two and three bays; a total frontage of forty-nine bays. Sashes, some with vertical glazing bars intact, to second and third floors, French windows throughout on first floor, with continuous verandah, returned to side elevations, with simple rails and heart shaped brackets. French windows also to ground floor, alternately with balconies and simple swept rails to flights of moulded marble steps, some replaced. Central doorway blocked. Sashes and irregularly occurring doors to basement.
Part of James Townley's large-scale plans to redevelop the barracks area west of Ramsgate, the crescent was planned to be twice its final length.
Listing NGR: TR3779064399
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 171998
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Busson, C, Book of Ramsgate, (), 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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