Custom House with Forecourt is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. Custom house. 4 related planning applications.
Custom House with Forecourt
- WRENN ID
- plain-cobalt-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Custom house
- Address
- Custom House with Forecourt, Harbour Parade, Ramsgate, CT11 8LP
- OS grid reference
- TR 385 647
- Coordinates
- 51.33217, 1.42287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Custom House, built in 1893-1894, is located on the north side of Ramsgate Harbour Parade. This building features deep red brick with matching terracotta details and a copper dome. It stands two storeys high on a plinth, with a moulded string course and quoins leading to a modillion eaves cornice topped with a balustraded parapet. The dome is adorned with a lantern and a columned drum, featuring a lion's mask frieze, a dome, and a weather vane. The front of the building has five bays, with projecting surrounds that create a 1:3:1 rhythm. The segmentally headed sash windows, which have glazing bars on the upper leaves, are set within Ionic columned surrounds, with a balustrade above the first-floor windows. The central entrance consists of double panelled doors with a segmental fanlight, all framed in a keyed and moulded surround. There is a simple railed forecourt. Inside, the original staircase hall and offices are still intact.
Local climate
Custom House with Forecourt 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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