Listed Building record TR 36 SE 660 - EAST CLIFF HOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1805 to 1845

Location

Grid reference TR 3856 6489 (point)
Map sheet TR36SE
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 WELLINGTON CRESCENT TR 3864 NE (north side) 14/422 East Cliff House GV II House. Circa 1825 for William Miller. Stock brick with rendered details and slate roof. Three storeys and basement. Rusticated base with string course, raised over projecting pedestals supporting giant Doric pilasters on 1st and 2nd floors, with moulded cill band to 2nd floor. Full entablature to parapet with stacks to left and to right. Regular fenestration of 3 glazing bar sashes in moulded surrounds on 2nd floor (16, 12 and 16 paned) with 3 elongated glazing bar sashes on 1st floor in moulded surrounds with frieze and cornice and sunk aprons. Bows to left and to right on ground floor with tripartite glazing bar sashes, pilasters and heavy frieze and cornice. Central half-glazed door with rectangular fanlight in projecting porch with fluted Doric columns and heavy frieze and cornice. Glazing bar sashes to basement. Single storey rusticated extension to right with glazing bar sash. The name East Cliff House inscribed on plaque over central 1st floor window. William Miller was a shipwright, his yards on the beaches below connected to East Cliff House by tunnel through the chalk. (See Busson, Ramsgate, p105).
Listing NGR: TR3856964898


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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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM