RAMSGATE KING STREET TR 3864 NW (south-east side) 13/236 No. 1 (The Red Lion) 13.9.74 GV II Public house. Late C17, altered C18 and early C19. Painted brick with slate roof. Three storeys and attic with moulded string course parapet to Mansard roof with 2 stacks to left. Single flat roofed dormer to front elevation, and 2 to right return. Window opening, boarded up, on 2nd floor, with 2 storey shallow canted bay below with cornices on each floor, with 3 boarded openings at each floor. Tiled base. Two storey bow to corner with boxed eaves, with 2 boarded window openings on 1st floor, and double half-glazed doors with rectangular fanlight and bracketted cornice and iron lamp on plain bracket. Right return with 2 blocks, with 2 glazing bar sashes and 3 glazing bar sashes on upper floor, and 2 to ground floor to rear block, with triple pilastered doorway, boarded up, to left (front block). All boarded window openings originally glazing bar sashes. Interior: gutted by fire at time of survey. The public house was existing in 1717 when it was used as the meeting place of the sessions of the officers of the Vill of Ramsgate (until the first Market House was built in 1785). (See Busson, Ramsgate, 97; see also Mirams, Old Ramsgate Pubs, II. Marked as Red Lion on Collard and Hurst's 1822 map). Listing NGR: TR3833164934