Granville Terrace St Clu Hotel

RAMSGATE VICTORIA PARADE TR 3865 SE (north side) 10/408 St. Clu Hotel GV II Hotel. Built 1873 or 1883 for Edmund Davis. Stock brick, part rendered with slate roof. Four storeys and attic with rusticated ground, 1st and 2nd floor and with cill bands and cornice to attic storey with projecting gable to right, and 3 gabled semi-dormers, with paired round headed openings, with stack to right. Eight sashes in moulded surrounds on 3rd floor, and French windows on 1st and 2nd floors, in panelled and fully glazed 2 storey verandah with scrolled piers (an original feature). Three canted bays to ground floor with sash to left and recessed to centre right, and glazed C20 porch to left. Right return with two 3 storey canted bays and 3 gabled half-dormers, with same overall details. The hotel was originally called Granville Terrace, part of the redevelopment of Mount Albion House estate, most of which was undertaken by Edward Welby Pugin(for himself and for Edmund Davis,)who may have designed this building, although stylistically remote from his other work here. Originally twice the length, half the building destroyed 1928. Davis laid out and developed the Granville Marina below the cliffs. (See Busson, Ramsagte, 107).

Listing NGR: TR3892465316