ST BENET'S

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:: ST BENET'S, 1 AND 2, SPENCER SQUARE

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Official list entry

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

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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

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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.