Lift from Western Undercliff to Royal Esplanade at TR3763 6422

Lift from Western Undercliff to Royal Esplanade at TR3763 6422, Western Undercliff, Ramsgate

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281487
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: Lift from Western Undercliff to Royal Esplanade at TR3763 6422
Statutory Address:: Lift from Western Undercliff to Royal Esplanade at TR3763 6422, Western Undercliff, Ramsgate

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281487
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: Lift from Western Undercliff to Royal Esplanade at TR3763 6422
Statutory Address 1:: Lift from Western Undercliff to Royal Esplanade at TR3763 6422, Western Undercliff, Ramsgate

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:: Lift from Western Undercliff to Royal Esplanade at TR3763 6422, Western Undercliff, 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 37635 64224

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 27 February 2024 to amend name of architect, date of construction and to add three references to selected sources and to reformat the text to current standards

TR 3764 SE 18/441

RAMSGATE WESTERN UNDERCLIFF Lift from Western Undercliff to Royal Esplanade at TR3763 6422

GV II Lift. 1928-29 by Basil C. Deacon of Franklin and Deacon of Luton. Stone base and rendered shaft, with glass front. Rusticated and vermiculated base on plinth with heavy cornice to main shaft. Recessed single storey rusticated block to right. Three stage shaft in the form of a pylon with recessed centre panel, the main elevation infilled with coloured glass, graded from dark blue at base to white at top, divided into three stages by cross-panels. The side elevations are simply rendered. The pilaster- buttress crowned at top by fluted frieze, and recessed to parapet to ogival dome, all rendered. Boarded doors in rendered surround at top and bottom of shaft, and to side block (engine house).

Listing NGR: TR3763064220

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Legacy System number:: 172077
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Bedfordshire Archives Service: CDE301
Thanet Advertiser, 30 March 1928, 1
Thanet Advertiser, 4 May 1928, 10

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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.