Rank Hovis Flour Mills
RANK HOVIS FLOUR MILLS, MARGATE ROAD
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
TR 36 NE
1/254
RAMSGATE
MARGATE ROAD
(west side)
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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TR 36 NE
1/254
RAMSGATE
MARGATE ROAD
(west side)
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: TR3780965634
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 171887
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Busson, C, Book of Ramsgate, (), 129-130
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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