Claremont

Claremont is a house built around 1850, located in Ramsgate Vale Square. The building is rendered, with a left return rear wing featuring exposed stock brick, and it has slate roofs. It retains elements of the Gothick style and stands three storeys high with a basement on a plinth, which includes a string course and double offset angle buttresses. The house has two parapet gables with cornices that extend to the rear cross wing, which also features parapet gables. There are chimney stacks projecting from both the left and right ends of the building.

The gables contain pointed arched sashes with Y-traceried upper leaves and drip moulds. Below, there are two two-storey canted bays; the first floor has sashes with label heads and cornices, along with a blind trefoil frieze below. The ground floor features lancet sashes, separated by small offset buttresses. There are lancette niches at the centre of the ground and first floors, adorned with ogee-shaped ball flower enriched heads, and a scrolled name cartouche on the second floor that reads "Claremont."

Access to the house is through a single-storey porch on the left return, which has a pierced trefoil parapet and offset corner buttresses, along with a boarded chamfered arched entry that includes five steps. Above the porch, there is a lancet wooden casement in the wall. Projecting to the right from the main elevation is a wall approximately 10 yards long and 8 feet high, featuring a blind trefoiled frieze-parapet and two blank lancet recesses; this wall originally supported a conservatory. The rear wing of the house has plain glazing bar sashes. Claremont is part of J.C. Eddel's development of Vale Square.