Powder Magazine and walls is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1985. Military structure. 3 related planning applications.
Powder Magazine and walls
- WRENN ID
- ragged-mortar-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1985
- Type
- Military structure
- Address
- Powder Magazine and walls, South-West End of Harbour Cross Wall, Ramsgate
- OS grid reference
- TR 381 644
- Coordinates
- 51.3292, 1.41772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Powder Magazine and its flanking walls were built by John Shaw in 1828. The structure features ashlar walls topped with a slate roof and has timber doors.
The magazine is a single-storey, rounded lozenge-shaped building with a high blast wall that extends about 5 to 6 meters beyond the magazine at both ends. The exterior is made of large stone ashlar blocks supporting a slate roof with swept hipped ends and a parapet gutter. There are no windows, but two single wooden panelled doors are located on the curved ends. A small buttress is present at the north-east angle between the magazine and the flanking wall, while scarring at the south-east angle indicates that a matching buttress may have once existed there. The extending walls are stepped down on either side of the magazine.
Local climate
Powder Magazine and walls sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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