This house has similar fenestration to Captain Abbott’s house next door. It was converted to shops and later extended for housing.
The Oddfellows Hall (picture left) is a Dutch Gable property refaced in the 1920s. Opposite stands the once-famous Spread Eagle coaching inn.
Before Ramsgate became a resort town, it was a busy seaport trading as far away as Norway, Russia and New England. The sea captains and merchants built their houses on the hill overlooking the harbour and they named it Westminster, not only because it was on the road heading west but because of the quality of its architecture.
Another early 18th-century mansion Monkton House was the town’s Employment Exchange before being converted to flats.
Independent shops are returning to the area like this gallery and jewellery maker next door to Chatham House Grammar School.
The end of the Dutch Gable row and the Priest’s House which has been occupied by the same family for generations and has a wealth of original features.
The Duke of Wellington’s headquarters during the Napoleonic wars was here in Chatham Place.
The John Lewis plan of Ramsgate 1735 dedicated to ‘Captain Thomas Abbott, Captain William Spencer and the Gentlemen of Ramsgate’.
Refaced in the Victorian era, the former Sylvan Hotel on the upper high street dates from the late 17th century and is one of the town’s oldest buildings.
GII* Townley House was designed by architect Mary Townley at the end of the 18th century, it hosted grand receptions for the great and the good.
After playing a pivotal role in the defeat of Napoleon, England wanted to celebrate its new position on the international stage. Favoured by the young Princess Victoria and her mother, the Duchess of Kent, Ramsgate attracted the socialites, artists and politicians of the day: Karl Marx, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wilkie Collins and Vincent Van Gogh, to name a few. Some splendid architecture from that period remains today and the town boasts more listed buildings than the city of Bath.
If the scheme is as well received as we hope it will grow and incorporate other parts of the Ramsgate Conservation area. In addition to historic building conservation, we hope to address the negative impact of cars, combat littering and fly-tipping, and reintroduce heritage lighting to demarcate and highlight that you are in a historic area.