Listed Building: NOS 3-13 WITH RAILED AREAS (1336649)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1413, 10, 35
Date assigned 04 February 1988
Date last amended

Description

RAMSGATE ALBERT ROAD TR 3865 SE (east side) 10/35 Nos. 3-13 (odd numbers) with railed areas. GV II Terrace row. Circa 1860. Attributed E.W. Pugin. Stock brick, in part painted, with rendered details. Slate roof in part replaced with concrete tiles. Italian Gothic in style. Four storeys and basement, the top storey in the form of a semi-attic, with plinth and Lombard frieze to central range, and stacks to left and to centre and projecting and corbelled at end left and end right (truncated) with single corbelled chimneys on parapet to left (truncated) and to right. Central stepping down to right, breaking facade into 2 equal sections. Gabled pavillions at each end of terrace with full 4 storeys, kneelered gable and gable light, and secondary gable to centre. Central range with 2 large semi-dormers and 2 small to each half of terrace, all set within pierced balustrade, and all with bargeboards. Each house unit with triple lancet and single lancet sash on 2nd floor, all with rendered arched heads. The tripartite windows are set above 2 storey and basement canted bays, with balustraded parapets, and with moulded segmentally headed surrounds to sashes, with single keyed segmentally headed French windows between. Continuous balcony over whole front, with unusually styled Gothic rail, replaced at end left by simple C20 rail. Set in the outer corners of each pavillion are small round turret-like oriels at 1st floor level, corbelled out and with traceried fenestration. Half-glazed doors to left, to right, paired to centre right, and replaced by C20 hotel entrance to centre left, all with solid walls and piers to flights of steps. Sashes and half- glazed doors to basement, with palmette-headed rails to basement area. Pugin and some business associates bought the former Mount Albion House estate in the 1840's, building some terraces, of which this block and the Granville Hotel (originally Granville Terrace) were by Pugin himself. (See Busson, Ramsgate, 107). Listing NGR: TR3889165309

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TR 3889 6530 (point)
Map sheet TR36NE
Civil Parish RAMSGATE, THANET, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 9:41AM