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Monument details

HER Number:TR 36 NE 2311
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:GAS WORKS, OFFICES WITH RAILED AREA, DEPOT AND ADJOINING WALLS AND GATE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1867 to 1899.


Grid Reference:TR 38335 65457
Map Sheet:TR36NE
Parish:RAMSGATE, THANET, KENT

Monument Types

  • SITE (Post Medieval - 1867 AD to 1899 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1085429: GAS WORKS, OFFICES WITH RAILED AREA, DEPOT AND ADJOINING WALLS AND GATE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
RAMSGATE BOUNDARY ROAD TR 3865 SW (north side) 9/62 Gas works, offices with railed area, depot and adjoin- ing walls and gate GV II Gas works offices and depot with walls. Late C19. Red brick and cream- coloured terracotta, with plain tiled roof. Two storeys and basement with moulded string course, cornice and parapet, with parapet gables and stacks to end left and to end right. Central projecting porch with octagonal turret and leaded ogee dome. Five light mullioned and transomed window to left, with coupled 2 light windows below, and large stair window, of 3 lights, the ground floor base sloping with the stairline. Five light to right with 2 dividing panels, and picture window with top lights on ground floor. Top storey of turret with label surround to door to balcony and gantry with ornate wrought iron scrolled bracket-rails to large clock. Two sashes in chamfered reveals on 1st floor, and double half-glazed doors on ground floor, with rectangular fanlight in moulded Gibbs-style surround, with ornate coat of arms in semi-circular panel over (part of the arches and pendentives which transform the rectangular ground floor porch to the semi-octagonal turret). Four moulded steps. All windows, door and decorative surrounds and details executed in terracotta. Large basement openings. Simple rails with scrolled uprights to steps and area. Depot building adjoining to right in brown brick with red brick details, of 2 storeys, with pedimented gable with roundel, on 3 pilaster-buttresses. Two wooden casements on 1st floor 2 semi-circular headed openings ground floor. Right return (long side) and rear, whitewashed with irregular openings. Wall to left (west) about 12 feet high, on plinth, with capped decorative pilaster (in same style as depot building buttresses) and coping. Stepped up 4 times to gateway, with simple iron gate and gate pier to west. Wall returned to adjoin main block with passageway entrance.
Listing NGR: TR3833565457

Gas works in two locations either side of Boundary Road, first visible on the Ordnance Survey 1877 edition [1]. The S site was seen to have been developed upon, but the N site was still visible on the Ordnance Survey 1898 edition [2] and the 1908 edition [3]. The N site was no longer visible on the Ordnance Survey 1938 edition [4] or on OS MasterMap dating to 2009 [5]. It was given a monument polygon during historic mapping enhancement as part of Phase 1 of the South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey.


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

Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text] (Monograph). SWX6569.

Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text] (Monograph). SWX6569.

Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text] (Monograph). SWX6569.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1858-73, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1872-1897, 1877/1:2500 (Map). SWX11831.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1893-7, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 2nd edition : 1893-1898, 1898/1:2500 (Map). SWX11832.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1905-10, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 3rd edition: 1901-1912, 1908/1:2500 (Map). SWX11833.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1928-1947, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 4th edition 1928-1947, 1938/1:2500 (Map). Ske12644.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 2009, OS MasterMap, MasterMap (Cartographic materials). SWX15710.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
---Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text].
<1>Map: Ordnance Survey. 1858-73. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1872-1897. 1:2500. 1877/1:2500.
<2>Map: Ordnance Survey. 1893-7. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 2nd edition : 1893-1898. 1:2500. 1898/1:2500.
<3>Map: Ordnance Survey. 1905-10. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 3rd edition: 1901-1912. 1:2500. 1908/1:2500.
<4>Map: Ordnance Survey. 1928-1947. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 4th edition 1928-1947. 1938/1:2500.
<5>Cartographic materials: Ordnance Survey. 2009. OS MasterMap. MasterMap.