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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 36 NE 2399 |
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| Type of record: | Landscape |
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| Name: | Winterstoke Gardens, Ramsgate |
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Summary
Historic sea-front gardens, Ramsgate
| Grid Reference: | TR 3917 6556 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR36NE |
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| Parish: | RAMSGATE, THANET, KENT |
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Monument Types
- GARDEN (Modern - 1901 AD to 2050 AD)
| Protected Status: | Historic Park or Garden 356: Winterstoke Gardens, Ramsgate |
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Full description
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Historic sea-front gardens, Ramsgate.
Winterstoke Gardens, with rockery work by Sir John Burnet and Partners and Pulham and Sons, was laid out in 1923. A gift to the borough from Dame Janet Stancombe-Wills, it cost £10,000. As a continuation of this planned landscape, this case considers the portion of cliff face and the sloping pathway which forms Winterstoke Chine, connecting the Eastcliff to Winterstoke Undercliff, were added in 1936 to the designs of Pulham and Sons with the borough engineer, Alec Adlington at a cost of £23,000. (1,2)
<1> Ramsgate Heritage Action Zone (HAZ) Partnership, 2020, Conservation of PULHAMITE ARTIFICIAL ROCKWORK Ramsgate, Kent: ROYAL PARADE STAGE ONE REPORT (Unpublished document). SKE54955.
<2> Historic England, National Heritage List for England (Index). SKE29372.
<3> Ramsgate Heritage Action Zone (HAZ) Partnership, 2020, Conservation of Pulhamite Artificial Rockwork, East Cliff Chine Survey Zones Section A, Lower Face (Unpublished document). SKE54957.
<4> Ramsgate Heritage Action Zone (HAZ) Partnership, 2020, Conservation of Pulhamite Artificial Rockwork, Ramsgate, Kent, Winterstoke Gardens, Stage Two Report (Unpublished document). SKE54960.
<5> Ramsgate Heritage Action Zone (HAZ) Partnership, 2020, Conservation of Pulhamite Artificial Rockwork, Winterstoke Gardens Survey Zones Section A - D (Unpublished document). SKE54961.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Ramsgate Heritage Action Zone (HAZ) Partnership. 2020. Conservation of PULHAMITE ARTIFICIAL ROCKWORK Ramsgate, Kent: ROYAL PARADE STAGE ONE REPORT. |
| <2> | Index: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. |
| <3> | Unpublished document: Ramsgate Heritage Action Zone (HAZ) Partnership. 2020. Conservation of Pulhamite Artificial Rockwork, East Cliff Chine Survey Zones Section A, Lower Face. |
| <4> | Unpublished document: Ramsgate Heritage Action Zone (HAZ) Partnership. 2020. Conservation of Pulhamite Artificial Rockwork, Ramsgate, Kent, Winterstoke Gardens, Stage Two Report. |
| <5> | Unpublished document: Ramsgate Heritage Action Zone (HAZ) Partnership. 2020. Conservation of Pulhamite Artificial Rockwork, Winterstoke Gardens Survey Zones Section A - D. |
