St Benet's
ST BENET'S, 1 AND 2, SPENCER SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336330
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Benet's
- Statutory Address:
- ST BENET'S, 1 AND 2, SPENCER SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336330
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Benet's
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST BENET'S, 1 AND 2, SPENCER SQUARE
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:
- ST BENET'S, 1 AND 2, SPENCER SQUARE
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 37943 64468
Details
RAMSGATE SPENCER SQUARE TR 3764 SE (south side) 18/375 Nos. 1 and 2 (St. Benet's) GV II House. Late C19. Rendered with slate roof. Three storeys and attic with 6 storey tower. Horizontally rusticated base and balustrated parapet with urn finials. Roof hipped to right with 3 moulded segmental dormers with ball finials. Gable to rear tower to left with segmentally headed sashes with stacks and stair turret grouped to right. Two full height canted bays with sashes on 2nd floor and French windows and sashes on 1st floor with tented verandah taken round bays, with moulded valancing, slender piers and cast iron rails. Sash and French windows on ground floor and double half-glazed doors with semi-circular fanlight, with surround on recessed marble columns. Cast iron rails to ground floor. Central swept stair with balustrade.
Listing NGR: TR3794364468
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 172011
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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