Bowls Pavilion is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1988. Sports pavilion. 4 related planning applications.
Bowls Pavilion
- WRENN ID
- burning-balcony-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1988
- Type
- Sports pavilion
- Address
- Bowls Pavilion, Royal Esplanade, Ramsgate, CT11 0HE
- OS grid reference
- TR 372 641
- Coordinates
- 51.32735, 1.4036
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bowls Pavilion is a sports pavilion built for bowls between 1928 and 1929 by architect Basil C. Deacon of Franklin and Deacon of Luton. The building features painted and rendered brickwork, with a boarded iron-framed extension added in the late 20th century. Originally, it was identical to the nearby croquet pavilion and includes a front arcade topped with a cornice, balustrade, and flagpole, flanked by flights of steps. The center of the pavilion has a single-storey flat-roofed extension made of iron framing and boarding, with central double doors. All windows are boarded for the winter season. The original arcade remains intact and unaltered behind the 20th-century extension, which does not structurally affect the original building. The pavilion is part of the Westcliff improvements carried out by Franklin and Deacon of Luton and is included for its group value.
Local climate
Bowls Pavilion 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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