Description

RAMSGATE WELLINGTON CRESCENT
TR 3864 NE
(north side)
14/422 East Cliff
House
GV II
House. Circa 1825 for William Miller. Stock brick with rendered details
and slate roof. Three storeys and basement. Rusticated base with string
course, raised over projecting pedestals supporting giant Doric pilasters
on 1st and 2nd floors, with moulded cill band to 2nd floor. Full
entablature to parapet with stacks to left and to right. Regular
fenestration of 3 glazing bar sashes in moulded surrounds on 2nd floor
(16, 12 and 16 paned) with 3 elongated glazing bar sashes on 1st floor
in moulded surrounds with frieze and cornice and sunk aprons. Bows to
left and to right on ground floor with tripartite glazing bar sashes,
pilasters and heavy frieze and cornice. Central half-glazed door with
rectangular fanlight in projecting porch with fluted Doric columns and
heavy frieze and cornice. Glazing bar sashes to basement. Single
storey rusticated extension to right with glazing bar sash. The name
East Cliff House inscribed on plaque over central 1st floor window.
William Miller was a shipwright, his yards on the beaches below
connected to East Cliff House by tunnel through the chalk. (See Busson,
Ramsgate, p105).

Listing NGR: TR3856964898

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26602043

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)