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TR 3865 SE
10/35

RAMSGATE
ALBERT ROAD (east side)
Nos. 3-13 (odd numbers) with railed areas

GV
II
Terrace row. Circa 1860. Attributed Edward Welby Pugin. Stock brick, in part painted, with rendered details. Slate roof in part replaced with concrete tiles. Italian Gothic in style.

Four storeys and basement, the top storey in the form of a semi-attic, with plinth and Lombard frieze to central range, and stacks to left and to centre and projecting and corbelled at end left and end right (truncated) with single corbelled chimneys on parapet to left (truncated) and to right. Central stepping down to right, breaking facade into two equal sections.Gabled pavilions at each end of terrace with full four storeys, kneelered gable and gable light, and secondary gable to centre.

Central range with two large semi-dormers and two small to each half of terrace, all set within pierced balustrade, and all with bargeboards. Each house unit with triple lancet and single lancet sash on second floor, all with rendered arched heads. The tripartite windows are set above two storey and basement canted bays, with balustraded parapets, and with moulded segmentally headed surrounds to sashes, with single keyed segmentally headed French windows between. Continuous balcony over whole front, with unusually styled Gothic rail, replaced at end left by simple C20 rail. Set in the outer corners of each pavilion are small round turret-like oriels at first floor level, corbelled out and with traceried fenestration. Half-glazed doors to left, to right, paired to centre right, and replaced by C20 hotel entrance to centre left, all with solid walls and piers to flights of steps. Sashes and half glazed doors to basement, with palmette-headed rails to basement area.

Pugin and some business associates bought the former Mount Albion House estate in the 1840s, building some terraces, of which this block and the Granville Hotel (originally Granville Terrace) were by Pugin himself.

Listing NGR: TR3889165309

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26621130

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)