The following text is from the original listed building designation:
The following buildings shall be added to the list:-
TQ 67 SW GRAVESEND WINDMILL STREET
8/232 Tivoli House
II
Originally an hotel and refreshment rooms. Dated 1836, extended in 1856 and late C19. Stock brick with slate and asbestos tile hipped roofs with deep eaves.
Half H-shaped on plan, the left (north) wing was extended at rear in 1856 and again later in C19 by addition of a large hall. Entrance hall and stairs on left (north) side.
Italinate style.
2 storeys, attic and basement. Symmetrical west front of 1:5:1 bays, the centre 3 bays 2 storeys and basement, the projecting flanking wings rise to attics. Rendered basement has rusticated openings at centre and left. Brick string course at first floor level. Centre 5 windows are round-headed on ground floor and segmental headed on first floor, all with moulded stucco archivolts. Flanking wings have tripartite sashes on ground floor in rusticated segmentally headed architraves. Sash windows, mostly with glazing bars. North return of left cross-wing, 1:3:1 bays, ground floor rusticated cambered arch openings and wide rusticated doorways either side of central window; tall narrow sashes on first floor with moulded archivolts; small 6-pane second floor sashes under eaves, the centre 3 with continuous corbelled brick cill with erased plaque below and below outer windows tablets bearing dated 1836; brick stringcourses; slightly lower 1856 rear range on left with rusticated arch ground floor openings and round arch first floor windows; all sashes mostly with glazing bars intact; on extreme left is large later C19 hall. At rear various sash windows with glazing bars, some blocked, one large ground floor window with rusticated architrave.
Interior: Entrance hall has dado panelling and open-well staircase with moulded balusters, newels and mahogany handrail. Two principal first floor rooms in north wing have reeded ceiling borders. Other features may be concealed by later alterations.
Note: Known as Tivoli Tavern and built as an hotel and refreshment rooms to the Windmill Hill Pleasure Gardens, and said to have had a ballroom. It was extended in 1856 when occupied by a Jewish Academy and extended again later in C19.
Sources: Illustration in 1842 guide book and circa 1860 maps.
Listing NGR: TQ6477973474

Description from record TQ 67 SW 1315:
Second World War public air raid shelter for 79 people in the basement of Tivoli House, on the eastern side of Windmill Street, Gravesend. Although details of the adaptation are unknown, it is likely to have involved the strenthening and strutting of the basement and the formation of an emergency exit. The shelter appears to have been established in 1939 to be decommissioned by the end of the Second World War in Europe in 1945. Strutting would have been removed by 1946. It is still in use as a Salvation Army furniture store and shop.
Owner : Unknown
Publicly accessible : Yes
How accessed for survey : Basement area informally accessible during the opening times of the Salvation Army store and shop
Tourism Potential : Slight potential as a point of interest to note on a defence heritage trail
Condition : moderate
Date of visit : 19/04/06

Borough Engineer for Gravesend, 28/12/39, Untitled (Unpublished document). SKE13973.