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Monument details

Summary

Grade I listed building. Main construction periods 1843 to 1844 The Grange

Monument Types

• HOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1843 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Description from record TR 36 SE 46 :
(TR 3765 6431) The Grange (St Gregory's College) [NAT] (1) (TR 3765 6431) Coll [NAT] (2) The Grange. House with chapel attached 1843-4 by A.W.N. Pugin for himself, later alterations and additions by E.W. Pugin (see list for further details). (3) Detailed notes on The Grange. (4) Entrance courtyard and North garden, sequence of construction and demolition of structures(5)

The building was surveyed in detail in preparation for a conservation plan in 2001. (6) This plan was amended and recorded in a Supplement to the plan in January 2014. (7)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
RAMSGATE ST. AUGUSTINE'S ROAD TR 3764 SE (South side) 18/368 The Grange 13.8.68 GV I House with chapel attached. 1843-4 by A.W.N. Pugin for himself, later alterations and additions by E. W. Pugin. Gault brick with black brick bands, stone dressings and slate roofs. Two storeys with attics. Irregular and picturesquely massed facades, illustrating Pugin's belief in expression of plan and function on elevation. Tripartite garden front has crest returned gable with 2 storey canted bow with casement windows, 2 light attic basement. Centre with 2 ground floor case windows, one first floor single and one 3 light window. Ground floor plinth, first floor string, simple boarded eaves and verges to gables. One 3 light dormer, one ridge stack. Three storey rectangular tower at east with battlemented parapet, single storey hipped roof projecting chapel beyond with one 2 light south and one 2 light west window. Projecting gable at west, addition by E. W. Pugin, forming his business room with external access. Plinth of dismantled conservatory. Highly irregular north front with glazed entrance corridor projection by E. W. Pugin replacing that at right angles to west connecting with original wicket gate entrance. Service wing at north west heightened by E. W. Pugin. Interior: hall with off-axis fireplace, stairs and gallery. Dining room with carved fireplace with brackets supporting large bresummer beam forming inglenook, a reference to the medieval hall-house plan. Two reception rooms with stencilled ceilings with mottoes and heraldry, 2 Pugin fireplaces, one with outer colonnette additons by E. W. Pugin, one with monograms and saints' emblems of the children. Chapel has early Minton tiles and Wailes glass with family portraits and patron saints. The house occupies a crucial place in the development of Cl9 domestic architecture, in planning and style (See BOE, Kent I, 1983 424-5; Dixon and Muthesius, Victorian Architecture, 48-9; St Augustine's Guide).
Listing NGR: TR3764264312 (8)

<1> OS 1:1250 1975 (OS Card Reference). SKE48186.

<2> OS 1:10000 1977 (OS Card Reference). SKE48162.

<3> DOE(HHR) Dist of Thanet 1988 166 (OS Card Reference). SKE41074.

<4> Bldgs of Eng NE and E Kent 1983 424-5 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37818.

<5> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2000, An Archaeological Excavation at The Grange, Ramsgate (Unpublished document). SKE7353.

<6> Paul Drury, 2001, The Grange, Ramsgate, Kent: Conservation Plan (Unpublished document). SKE17431.

<7> Drury McPherson Partnership, 2014, St Edward's Presbytery, The Grange, Ramsgate, Kent, Supplement to the Grange Conservation Plan, 2001 (Unpublished document). SKE30955.

<8> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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