Listed Building: 49 ADDINGTON STREET (1336630)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1413, 12, 28
Date assigned 13 June 1986
Date last amended

Description

RAMSGATE ADDINGTON STREET TR 3764 NE (west side) 12/28 No. 49 13.6.86 GV II House and shop. Early C18 or earlier, altered 1801-21 and late C19. Brick and flint, rendered on front elevation with plain tiled roof. Two storeys and basement with parapet to hipped roof with stacks to rear. Canted bay/ oriel on first floor and canted plate glass later C19 shop front on ground floor, with traceried basement opening below and plate glass door to right all under cornice fascia on pilasters. The shop front mouldings show late C19 Arts and Crafts style influences. Interior: cellar lined with red brick in English and irregular bond, and with flint and large dressed stone blocks. Remains of stair with turned newels, winder plan. C19 beaded boarded panelling with moulded skirting and cornice. Queen strut roof. The building is all that survives substantially of the farming and fishing hamlet which occupied this site before the development of Addington Street after 1801 by James Townley, and the adjacent Cavalry Barracks, and incorporates in the basement remains of what may be late medieval buildings. (See Collard and Hurst's plan of Ramsgate, 1821; see also C. Busson, Ramsgate, pp. 118.9). Listing NGR: TR3797764573

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  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TR 3797 6457 (point)
Map sheet TR36SE
Civil Parish RAMSGATE, THANET, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 9:41AM