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RAMSGATE ALBION ROAD (Westside) No 6 with Courtyard 0/0 wall and garage/outhouse II House with courtyard wall and garage/outhouse C18 or earlier altered c1800 and early C20 Coursed flint in part knapped with yellow stock brick dressings and with slate roofs. Main block 2 storeys with quoins and secondary quoins to left indicating additional left end bay. Hipped roof with stacks to left and to right. Three wooden casements on 1st floor and bow window to left and casement on ground floor, with central half glazed door with flat hood on brackets in semi-circular susrround. Blocked doorway to left and wooden casement and sash to left return. Projecting at right the rear of the additional wing. 1 storey with lean to roof to parapet and stack with boarded door and sidelight and wooden casement to right on outside. The rear elevation of main block with the quoins to end bay not banded together (unlike front elevation) and exposed jambs of now blocked-in cart entry leading directly into the ground floor. Small opening in flint work Garden elevation (of additional wing): 1 storey and basement, with brick quoins to battlemented parapet with central panelled parapet with four centred arched niche Arched headed window surrounds to left and to right with cross windows and arched basements openings to left with arched basement door to right. Central half glazed door, with panelled outer half-doors in arched surround. Interior The main block now fully domestic with tie beam roof evidence of framed partitions Additional wing with complete tongue and groove boarded wall and barrelled ceiling covering with moulded picture rail all probably early C19. Subsidiary features: Hipped garage. former coachhouse of yellow stock brick and flint with slate roof built on top of courtyard wall of irregular Header and English Bond stock brick with flint base and extending to adjoin the main block.

The main range had a great deal of wheat chaff under the main ulcer floorboards and given the blocked up carriage entry on ground floor was undoubtedly originally part of the complex of mill buildings occupying this site from medieval times to early C19 Late C18 conversion to domestic use the building became the lodge to Mount Albion House and estate c 1840. The wind mill site is in the rear garden and was one of the ancient boundary marks of the Ville of Ramsgate (see Busson the Book of Ramsgate) The present layout of buildings is marked as such on Collard and Hurst's map of Ramsgate, 1822.

Listing NGR: TR3873065336

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