Description

RAMSGATE HIGH STREET
TR 3765 SE & TR 3865 SW
(north-east side)
No. 125 (The
Old House) and
walled forecourt
GV II *
0/d1

House. Early C18. Brown brick with red brick details and plain tiled
roof. Two storeys and attic with basement on plinth with moulded wooden
eaves cornice to roof with pedimented Dutch gables, 2 flat roofed
dormers and stacks to rear left and to rear right. Regular fenestration
of 4 glazing bar sashes- on each floor, all with gauged red brick heads,
grouped in pairs with central door of 6 raised and fielded panels, the
top 2 glazed. Doorcase with fluted Doric pilasters, triglyph frieze and
modillioned pediment, and with 2 moulded steps. Basement openings to
left and to right. Interior: panelled interiors survive both ground
floor and first floor, generally plain beaded panelling to entrance hall
and to left hand room, with marble fireplace and round headed recesses
to left and right of fireplace. Similar panelling to upper rooms.
Right hand ground floor room with panelled wainscot, dado rail and
panelled filling, all raised and fielded, as are the shutters and door.
Bolection moulded fireplace with panelled overmantel and domed fitted
cupboards to left and to right. The top lit stair is a later infill
replacing original newel stair. Walled forecourt, with 5 feet high
brick walls projecting from house to rendered piers with caps, with low
rendered front wall, now with late C20 breeze block courses over.
The house heavily swathed in scaffolding at time of survey.

Listing NGR: TR3800465228

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546626

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)