RAMSGATE HIGH STREET TR 3765 SE (south-west side) 8/186 No. 126 and railed forecourt 13.9.74 GV II House, now offices. C18, altered mid C19. Red brick, part rendered, and slate roof. Three storeys on plinth with horizontally rusticated ground floor, moulded cill band to second floor and quoins to cornice parapet with stacks to left and to right. Regular fenestration of alternating glazing bar sashes and blank spaces on 2nd floor (5 bays in all), 5 glazing bar sashes on 1st floor all in moulded surrounds and 4 sashes in rendered surrounds on ground floor. Central door of 6 panels with rectangular fanlight with integral lamp and with cornice on consoles. Forecourt with iron rails set in rendered wall with central wrought iron gate with simple uprights and dog rail. Large brick wings to rear, 2 storeys, with 2 French windows on each floor to rear with traceried rectangular fanlights and louvred shutters, and geometric patterned cast iron balcony, otherwise with sashes and glazing bar sashes. Marked on Collard and Hurst's 1822 plan, and (probably) the 1735 plan of Ramsgate (see Busson, 70). Here in 1802 lived Robert Strong Cramp, who built the nearby Cannon Road brewery (items 8/74 & 8/75). Listing NGR: TR3796965204