CHATHAM HOUSE SCHOOL AND RAILED AREA

CHATHAM HOUSE SCHOOL AND RAILED AREA, CHATHAM STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1336641
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: CHATHAM HOUSE SCHOOL AND RAILED AREA
Statutory Address:: CHATHAM HOUSE SCHOOL AND RAILED AREA, CHATHAM STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1336641
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: CHATHAM HOUSE SCHOOL AND RAILED AREA
Statutory Address 1:: CHATHAM HOUSE SCHOOL AND RAILED AREA, CHATHAM STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHATHAM HOUSE SCHOOL AND RAILED AREA, CHATHAM STREET

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County:: Kent
District:: Thanet (District Authority)
Parish:: Ramsgate
National Grid Reference:: TR3804365255

Details

TR 3865 SW 9/91

RAMSGATE CHATHAM STREET (east side) Chatham House School and railed area

GV II

School. 1879-82 by Aaron Twyman, built by W.W. Martin. Salmon pink brick and terracotta with plain tiled roof. Built as 2 huge blocks with central tower ensemble. The northern block of 3 storeys and basement, with 2 gables to left and to right, with tower and turret between the 2 later. Central range broken into 6 bays by full height buttresses projecting as pinnacles over parapet. Stacks to left and to right. Large paired segmental windows on 2nd floor in central portion, groups of 4, 5 or 6 lancets in each bay on 1st floor, and paired segmental lights on ground floor and paired lights to basement. Moulded arched gateway to left, and smaller pedestrian arch to right (in gabled projections) the latter with bay window and balcony over, offset to right and to left. Southern block of 6 bays and end gables, with similar but more regular fenestration, with traceried windows on 2nd floor. Fleur-de-lys rails to Area. Rear elevation: similar treatment, with less crowded fenestration, and with the central block more-clearly distinguished, of 2 storeys and attic and domestic in appearance, with gable to left with stack, dormer to right, tripartite sashes on 1st floor, and canted bay and segmentally headed windows on ground floor. The school buildings particularly the northern block, contain a chapel, work-shops, laboratories, gymnasium, laundry, sanatorium and hall as well as teaching and residential facilities. A contemporary wrote in praise of the plumbing ("a perfectly drained establishment") and the 4 miles of hot water pipes. The school was founded on the site in 1809. (See Busson, 68; see also Royal Ramsgate, 1897 p.46).

Listing NGR: TR3804365255

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Legacy System number:: 171720
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Royal Ramsgate, (1897), 46
Busson, C , Book of Ramsgate68

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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.