124, HIGH STREET

124, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1336660
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:
124, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
124, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1336660
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:
124, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
124, HIGH STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
124, HIGH STREET

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 37991 65205

Details

TR 3765 SE
8/187

RAMSGATE
HIGH STREET
(south-west side)
No. 124

GV
II*

House, now offices. Early C18. Brown brick with red brick details,
with concrete/tiled roof. Two storeys, attic and basement on plinth
with moulded modillion eaves cornice to roof with Dutch shaped gables,
3 flat roofed dormers and stacks to left and to right. Regular
fenestration of 5 glazing bar sashes on first floor with fielded aprons
below, and 4 glazing bar sashes on ground floor with gauged heads.
Basement openings to centre left and to centre right. Central door
of 6 raised and fielded panels with moulded step and footscraper in
doorcase with fluted pilasters and projecting moulded architrave.
Fluted frieze with brackets to moulded and projecting cornice. Recessed
wing to left with door of 6 raised and fielded panels. Interior: marble
Neo-classical fireplaces, contemporary staircase and panelling
reported. In 1802 the home of Nathaniel Austen, shipping agent and
ropemaker (Cannon Road nearby was in 1735 and still in 1822 a ropewalk)
and banker. (Busson, 69;70; Collard and Hurst 1822).

Listing NGR: TR3799165205

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
171816
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Busson, C, Book of Ramsgate, (), 69 70

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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