Ramsgate Station (British Rail)

Ramsgate Station, built between 1924 and 1926, is a railway station designed by Edwin Maxwell Fry, who was the chief assistant to J. R. Scott, the Chief Architect to Southern Railways. The building is constructed of stock brick with terracotta details and features a tiled roof. It has a large central hall flanked by two quadrant wings, each containing five bays with glazing bar sashes and boarded doors. The central block has a prominent centerpiece that projects forward and includes three full-height semi-circular headed windows with bolection moulded surrounds and console key stones. It is topped with a dentilled moulded cornice and a parapet gabled roof. A simple glazed canopy extends across the entire ground floor frontage, supported by iron ties with cross-scrolled centerpieces, and features boarded doors in each arch and in the flanking sections of the main block. Four escutcheons initialled "S" for Southern Railway are located between the arches on the main block.

Inside, the station has an elliptically vaulted booking hall that occupies the main space, with ticket offices, a canteen, and toilets located in the ancillary wings, at least one of which retains original fittings. The interior also features moulded window surrounds, door frames, wall panels, and the Railway and Town Coats of Arms.

Ramsgate Station is one of three similar stations built during the same period, alongside Margate and the now-demolished Dumpton Park. Edwin Maxwell Fry joined the Architect's Department of the Southern Railway in 1923, and his classical training at the Liverpool School of Architecture is reflected in the station's design. Fry later became known for embracing the international modern style, and the significance of these buildings has only recently been acknowledged.