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RAMSGATE HARBOUR PARADE
TR 3864 NW
(north side)
13/147
26.10.78 No. 68 (The
Castle Hotel)
GV II
Public House, now Art Trust. Late C18, extended c.1805. Painted brick
with slate roof. Four storeys and basement with painted quoins to
ground floor and 1st floor, and parapet to roof with stacks to left,
to right and to end right. The original building with regular
fenestration of 3 segmentally sashes on 3rd floor, 3 segmentally headed
glazing bar sashes on 2nd floor; 3 canted bays with French windows
on 1st floor with tented verandah with trellised piers and wrought
rails. Two canted bays to ground floor with pilasters and sashes, with
basement openings below. Central double panelled door with semi-circular
fanlight in moulded surround. Large plastered doorcase with heavily
enriched and guilloched pilasters and huge brackets with relief of
castles supporting cornice. Additional wing to right with
segmentally headed glazing bar sash to each floor, with segmental plate
glass ground floor. Interior: late C19 staircase; Assembly rooms on
2nd floor. The main block and adjacent wing were both owned C18 and C19
by Tomson and Wootton, but run separately as the Castle Hotel ("lately
rebuilt" in 1814) and the Castle Tap, not originally interconnected.
(See Traditional Kent Buildings, No. 4, p.5 ).

Listing NGR: TR3843564815