Listed Building: ST GEORGE'S HALL AND STAR SNOOKER CENTRE (1085410)
Grade | II |
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Authority | |
Volume/Map/Item | 1413, 9, 115 |
Date assigned | 04 February 1988 |
Date last amended |
Description
RAMSGATE GEORGE STREET TR 3865 SW (south side) 9/115 St. George's Hall, (Star Snooker Centre) GV II Assembly rooms, now clubhouse. 1840's. Stock brick, with red brick parapet, and with rendered details and slate roof. Single storey on rusticated basement with moulded cill band and rusticated quoins to cornice parapet, with C20 brick courses over with roof hipped to left, and gabled to right with stack. Six large casements with glazing bars in moulded surrounds with cornices, and 5 blank keyed window spaces in basement. Double panelled doors with cornice over to right in recessed wing with glazing bar sash in moulded surround over. Two glazing bar casements with boarded door to left return. Second recessed 2 storey wing to right, without the rendered details, with glazing bar sash on each floor. The building was originally the Assembly Rooms (Royal Assembly Rooms late C19), headquarters by late C19 of Volunteer Battalion; Shanly's Electric Theatre, opened December 1911, later the Star Cinema, and subsequently a furniture warehouse and now snooker club. Probably built by Woodland and Grundy, 2 local builders who developed Caven dish Street (q.v.) and George Street after 1839. (See Busson 66; Kelly's Directories 1884, 1898, 1911).
Listing NGR: TR3809665002
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Sources (1)
- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Location
Grid reference | TR 3809 6500 (point) |
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Map sheet | TR36NE |
Civil Parish | RAMSGATE, THANET, KENT |
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Record last edited
Nov 16 2006 9:41AM