The following text is from the original listed building designation:
RAMSGATE YORK STREET TR 3864 NW (east side) 13/445 The Crown Hotel GV II Public house. Early C18, refronted early C19. Rendered with slate roof. Three storeys and basement, with plinth and pilaster strips parapet, with raised segmental centre section. Three wooden casements on 2nd floor, 2 canted bays with sashes and central sash on first floor. Ground floor 'pub front', with rounded corners, plate glass windows with central double half-glazed doors with rectangular fanlight and pilastered surround. Fascia and cornice over whole. Basement opening to left. The name Crown Hotel in raised lettering on segmental parapet. First registered as the Crown Inn in 1717. (Busson, Ramsgate, 89; Mirams, Old Ramsgate Pubs, 25-6).
Listing NGR: TR3832264804

Crown Hotel was an inn as early as 1721, but the premises could be much older. It was rated at £8 in 1759, and is the only former Cobbs pub in the town proper which was still trading in the 1980s. The stone on the building indicates that it was probably rebuilt in 1853.

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

Ordinance Survey, 1872, Ramsgate Kent XXXVIII.1.22 (Map). SKE56202.

Barry Smith and Paul Skelton, 2024, Dover Kent Archives - Public Houses - (Website). SKE56155.