Listed Building record TR 36 NE 2288 - ST GEORGE'S HALL, George Street, Ramsgate

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1840 to 1911

Location

Grid reference Centred TR 3809 6500 (25m by 20m)
Map sheet TR36NE
Civil Parish RAMSGATE, THANET, KENT
District THANET, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
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 Cavendish Street (q.v.) and George Street after 1839. (See Busson 66; Kelly's Directories 1884, 1898, 1911).
Listing NGR: TR3809665002

The Hall is designated as a Music Hall on the 1849 street map of Ramsgate


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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

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Aug 13 2024 10:36AM