Carramore Residential Hotel

RAMSGATE WEST CLIFF ROAD TR 3764 NE (north side) 12/437 Carramore Residential Hotel GV II Infirmary, now residential hotel. 1840's. White stock brick, in part rendered, with slate roof. Two storeys on plinth with string course to ground floor windows and rusticated quoins supporting cornice parapet to double pitch roof with stacks to rear left and rear right. Regular fenestration of 5 glazing bar sashes with cornice, the central with pediment on first floor, and 4 glazing bar sashes with bracketted cornices on ground floor. Central double doors with rectangular fanlight and bracketted cornice at head of 4 steps with swept rails. Two storey extension to right with 2 glazing bar sashes in moulded surrounds to each floor. The property was acquired in 1849 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and associates and opened as a Seamens' Infirmary, under the patronage of the Duchess of Kent, originally as a temporary measure, but lasted as such until the founding of Ramsgate General Hospital (on the opposite side of the road) in 1908/9, after which it became a girl's home, then hotel. (See Busson, Book of Ramsgate, 127).

Listing NGR: TR3765564605