Listed Building record TR 26 SE 77 - Former site of Sarre Court Hotel, 17th century building

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
SARRE RAMSGATE ROAD TR 26 SE (west side) 3/129 Sarre Court Hotel 13-10-52
GV II House, now hotel. Early C18 and c.1800. Brown brick, rendered on front elevation, with slate roof. Rear wing with red brick and plain tiled roof. C18, or earlier, building, fronted by much larger C19 block. Entrance Front: 3 storeys and basement with single storey flanking wings, the ground floor channelled with plat band. Moulded cornice to parapet with mansard roof and stacks to end left and end right. Five 6 paned glazing bar sashes on second floor, 5 full size glazing bar sashes on first floor, and 4 sashes on ground floor with 3 sashes to left and 2 to right in wings. Central door of 6 raised and fielded panels with semi-circular fanlight and panelled surround with open pediment on attached columns with palmate capitals. Flight of 4 steps. Basement opening to bottom right. Rear elevation: 2 storeys and attic with hipped roof and 1 flat dormer. Obscured by later additions. Interior: some timbering in rear wing. Marble fireplaces, frieze of urns and acanthus in reception rooms, and elliptically arched screens to stairs are all that remains of early C19 interiors.
Listing NGR: TR2599064988
(1)

The building was destroyed by fire sometime prior to 1999. Initially all but a two room core of the structure was demolished. A survey of this remaining section revealed the core to be a much altered timber framed construction of 17th century date. A number of timbers were found amongst the demolition spread that indicated that there had not been a crown post, there had been a garret floor and that timbers had been reused in the building. Some timbers had both incised numerals and later 17th century chiselled numerals. (2)

The site was later cleared and redeveloped. No historic fabric remains above ground.

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1999, Sarre Court, Sarre: Interim Report/Statement (Unpublished document). SWX6750.