Former Smack Boys' Home

The Former Smack Boys' Home is a building located in Ramsgate, constructed in 1881. It is made of stock brick with red brick pilasters, dressings, and a parapet, along with ashlar dressings, and features a slate roof. The structure stands three storeys tall on a plinth and includes string courses, pilasters, mock machicolations, and battlements.

On the second floor, there are five cross-windows, while the first floor has five glazing bar sash windows with pointed arched surrounds and tile-hung tympana. The ground floor features four paired segmentally headed glazing bar sashes. To the left, there are double half-glazed and panelled doors with a traceried fanlight, all within a moulded arched surround. A mosaic band on the first floor is inscribed: "The Ramsgate Home for Smack Boys Founded 1881."

To the left of the main building, there is a two-storey and attic extension that includes strings, battlements, and a glazed arcaded attic storey. This extension has three cross-windows on the first floor and three glazing bar sashes in arched surrounds on the ground floor.

The home was established to support the smack boys, who were apprentices to the fishing smack skippers of Ramsgate. In 1863, there were 50 registered smacks in the port, which increased to 168 by 1906. The creation of the home was influenced by Canon Brenan, the Vicar of Christ Church in Ramsgate, who advocated for it to the Board of Trade. This facility is unique, as no other British fishing port has replicated it.