Description

RAMSGATE HIGH STREET
TR 3765 SE
(south-west side)
8/186 No. 126 and
railed forecourt
13.9.74
GV
II
House, now offices. C18, altered mid C19. Red brick, part rendered,
and slate roof. Three storeys on plinth with horizontally rusticated
ground floor, moulded cill band to second floor and quoins to cornice
parapet with stacks to left and to right. Regular fenestration of
alternating glazing bar sashes and blank spaces on 2nd floor (5 bays
in all), 5 glazing bar sashes on 1st floor all in moulded surrounds and
4 sashes in rendered surrounds on ground floor. Central door of 6
panels with rectangular fanlight with integral lamp and with cornice
on consoles. Forecourt with iron rails set in rendered wall with
central wrought iron gate with simple uprights and dog rail. Large
brick wings to rear, 2 storeys, with 2 French windows on each floor
to rear with traceried rectangular fanlights and louvred shutters,
and geometric patterned cast iron balcony, otherwise with sashes and
glazing bar sashes. Marked on Collard and Hurst's 1822 plan, and
(probably) the 1735 plan of Ramsgate (see Busson, 70). Here in 1802
lived Robert Strong Cramp, who built the nearby Cannon Road brewery
(items 8/74 & 8/75).

Listing NGR: TR3796965204

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26372145

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey