RAMSGATE THE PARAGON TR 3864 SW 19/284 No. 4 and railed Area 13.9.74 GV II Terrace house. Circa 1816. Rendered with slate roof. Four storeys and basement with parapet and stacks to left. Two sashes with moulded surrounds on 2nd and 3rd floors. Two French windows on first floor in lead-hooded verandah, with 2 moulded elliptical arches, and simple Gothick traceried rails. Bow window to ground floor and basement with 2 sashes on ground floor with hood boxes, and glazing bar sash to left and half-glazed door to right in basement, with sash to right below stairs. Panelled door to right on ground floor with semi-circular fanlight in moulded surround, with additional brackets to balcony, with flight of 3 moulded marble steps. Spear head tails with urn-finial principals. Interior: simple early C19 details, with marble surrounds to painted iron moulded fireplaces. Simple turned baluster dog leg stairs. The principal rooms on ground floor and first floor are rendered elliptical by means of curved doors, preserving incised Greek key ornament and fine brass key plates and escutcheons The Paragon was originally laid out after 1802 as part of James Townley's redevelopment of the old Cavalry Barracks site (see Spencer Square), and largely completed by 1816. Nos. 4 to 11 inclusive indicate the original character of the terrace, subsequently much altered. (See C. Busson, Book of Ramsgate). Listing NGR: TR3802864475