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Latitude: 51.3301 / 51°19'48"N
Longitude: 1.417 / 1°25'1"E
OS Eastings: 638138
OS Northings: 164544
OS Grid: TR381645
Mapcode National: GBR X0L.K33
Mapcode Global: VHMCW.HTZQ
Plus Code: 9F338CJ8+2R
Entry Name: Former Smack Boys' Home
Listing Date: 30 October 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376868
English Heritage Legacy ID: 171989
ID on this website: 101376868
Location: Ramsgate, Thanet, Kent, CT11
County: Kent
District: Thanet
Civil Parish: Ramsgate
Built-Up Area: Ramsgate
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
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RAMSGATE ROYAL HARBOUR
TR 3864 NW
(Military Road)
13/353 Former Smack
Boys' Home
30.10.85
GV II
Former smack boys' home. 1881. Stock brick with red brick pilasters,
dressings and parapet and ashlar dressings. Slate roof. Three storeys on
plinth with string courses, pilasters, mock machicolations and battlements.
Five cross-windows on 2nd floor and 5 glazing bar sashes on 1st floor with
pointed arched surrounds and tile-hung tympana. Four paired segmentally
headed glazing bar sashes on ground floor. Double half-glazed and panelled
doors with traceried fanlight to left in moulded arched surround. Mosaic
band at 1st floor inscribed: The Ramsgate Home for Smack Boys Founded 1881.
Two storey and attic extension to left, with strings, battlements and
glazed arcaded attic storey, with 3 cross windows on 1st floor and 3
glazing bar sashes in arched surrounds on ground floor. The smack boys
were apprenticed to the fishing smack skippers of Ramsgate (often the other
4 members of the crew besides the skipper himself were all smack boys), there
were 50 registered smacks here in 1863, 168 in 1906. The home was the result
of pressure put on the Board of Trade by Canon Brenan, Vicar of Christ Church,
Ramsgate. No other British fishing port appears to have copied this unique
facility. (See Busson, Cap.3, Matkin, Maritime Thanet).
Listing NGR: TR3813864544
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