RANK HOVIS FLOUR MILLS

RANK HOVIS FLOUR MILLS, MARGATE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298860
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: RANK HOVIS FLOUR MILLS
Statutory Address:: RANK HOVIS FLOUR MILLS, MARGATE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298860
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: RANK HOVIS FLOUR MILLS
Statutory Address 1:: RANK HOVIS FLOUR MILLS, MARGATE 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:: RANK HOVIS FLOUR MILLS, MARGATE 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 37809 65634

Details

In the entry for RAMSGATE MARGATE ROAD TR 36 NE (west side) 1/254 Rank Hovis Flour Mills The description shall be amended to read

Flour mills. 1865 by Edward Welby Pugin. Stock brick with red brick details. Five stores 3rd and 4th storeys added late in C19 or C20 with plinth-like ground floor, segmentally headed arcaded middle stage encompassing 1st and 2nd floors, brick bands to 3rd floors, and segmentally arcaded 4th floor. Gabled full height cross wing at rear with stepped side wings. Seven bays, all with metal casements. Three storey forebuilding, a later addition, but with exactly similar detailing, and over it, on the mainblock, a single large pointed window in multi moulded rebate, with crow-stepped raised surround. Open arcade and glazed ground floor to forebuilding. Interior: The first, second and third floors are supported on the original cast iron Tuscan style columns but the original steam-driven machinery has been taken out and replaced by C20 electically-driven machinery. Granary/silo/storage, etc. to left not included. Designed by Pugin for the Isle of Thanet Steam Flour Mills, (See Busson, Ramsgate, 129-30).

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RAMSGATE MARGATE ROAD TR 36 NE (west side) 1/254 Rank Hovis Flour Mills GV II Flour mills. Circa 1860s by Edward Welby Pugin. Stock brick with red brick details. Five storeys with plinth-like ground floor, segmentally headed arcaded middle stage encompassing 1st and 2nd floors, brick bands to 3rd floor, and segmentally arcaded 4th floor. Gabled full height cross wing at rear with stepped side wings. Seven bays, all with metal casements. Three storey forebuilding, a later addition, but with exactly similar detailing, and over it, on the main block, a single large pointed window in multi moulded rebate with crow-stepped raised surround. Open arcaded and glazed ground floor to forebuilding leading to early large corrugated iron-clad granary/silo/storage, etc. to left of indeterminate date. Designed by Pugin for the Isle of Thanet Steam Flour Mills, (See Busson, Ramsgate, 129-30).

Listing NGR: TR3708065180

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 171887
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Busson, C , Book of Ramsgate129-130

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.