East Cliff House

EAST CLIFF HOUSE, WELLINGTON CRESCENT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1315682
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:
East Cliff House
Statutory Address:
EAST CLIFF HOUSE, WELLINGTON CRESCENT
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1315682
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:
East Cliff House
Statutory Address 1:
EAST CLIFF HOUSE, WELLINGTON CRESCENT

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
EAST CLIFF HOUSE, WELLINGTON CRESCENT

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 38569 64898

Details

RAMSGATE WELLINGTON CRESCENT TR 3864 NE (north side) 14/422 East Cliff House GV II House. Circa 1825 for William Miller. Stock brick with rendered details and slate roof. Three storeys and basement. Rusticated base with string course, raised over projecting pedestals supporting giant Doric pilasters on 1st and 2nd floors, with moulded cill band to 2nd floor. Full entablature to parapet with stacks to left and to right. Regular fenestration of 3 glazing bar sashes in moulded surrounds on 2nd floor (16, 12 and 16 paned) with 3 elongated glazing bar sashes on 1st floor in moulded surrounds with frieze and cornice and sunk aprons. Bows to left and to right on ground floor with tripartite glazing bar sashes, pilasters and heavy frieze and cornice. Central half-glazed door with rectangular fanlight in projecting porch with fluted Doric columns and heavy frieze and cornice. Glazing bar sashes to basement. Single storey rusticated extension to right with glazing bar sash. The name East Cliff House inscribed on plaque over central 1st floor window. William Miller was a shipwright, his yards on the beaches below connected to East Cliff House by tunnel through the chalk. (See Busson, Ramsgate, p105).

Listing NGR: TR3856964898

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
172058
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Busson, C, Book of Ramsgate, (), 105

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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