RAMSGATE THE PARAGON TR 3764 SE 18/292 Nos. 17-22 inclusive, with railed Areas GV II Terrace row with public house. 1864, altered circa 1900. Stock brick, in part rendered, with felt roof. South (seaward) elevation. 4 storeys and basement with rusticated base, string courses, quoins and cornice to hipped roof with 4 stacks. Ten cross-windows on top floor, with rendered jambs. Five canted bays of 3 storeys and basement separated by 3 sashes with cornices and brackets, with continuous canted verandah on 1st floor with pierced piers and bowed acanthus rails. Half-glazed door to left with C20 surround and canopy. Two panelled doors to centre with rectangular fanlights and cornice on consoles with 6 moulded steps and simple rails to basement. Identical single doorway to right. West elevation: 4 storeys, with attic. Rusticated ground floor, with moulded string courses to each floor, quoins, rendered band to cornice to hipped roof with stacks to left and centre rear. Pedimented dormer with moulded oval panels to centre right. Ten bay front, spaced 3 bays, 3 wider bays, and 4 bays, reflecting original cartilage divisions. Cross windows to top 2 floors, except below pedimented dormer, 5th bay from right, with sashes. Three left hand windows on 2nd floor with cornices, the other 7 windows with bracketted pediments. Full height sashes to first floor with rendered surrounds and bowed acanthus balconies; left end 3 bays with tented verandah with cast iron valancing, piers and rails. Ground floor with continuous range of shop fronts circa 1900, turning corner to south elevation, with plate glass windows and top lights in 3 units, each with central double glazed doors. Main doors to upper floors to centre right (below pedimented dormer) with double panelled doors with rectangular fanlight, painted with name: Paragon Mansions. Heavy cornice on brackets. Built 1864 the main corner block was throughout C19 Mr. and Mrs. Rose's Boarding House (the subject of a sketch by Vincent Van Gogh, 1876), altered c.1900 to accommodate shops and Paragon Corner House restaurant, now public house and nightclub. (See Busson, Ramsgate, p.109). Listing NGR: TR3796664426