Nos 21 To 33 And Railed Steps

This is a terrace of houses built around 1820 in Ramsgate. The houses are constructed of stock brick, with Nos. 21 and 23 rendered. The terrace is three storeys high with a basement, and the parapet steps up twice towards the left. Each house has a regular arrangement of windows: three windows on the second and first floors, all now sash windows. The first floor of No. 31 has a central French window and an ornate cast iron balcony. There are two sash windows on the ground floor. Doors are located to the front of each house, except for Nos. 23 and 25, which are set to the left and right respectively, with a smaller round arched opening between them; this was originally a passageway and is now a window. The doors are made of six fielded panels, some now partly glazed. No. 33 has an integral lamp and bracket. The doors all have semi-circular fanlights, with some of the original tracery surviving, within double rebated and keyed semi-circular surrounds. Basement openings are to the left and right of the doorways, some now blocked. All window and door openings have rendered surrounds. No. 31 features splayed window recesses with chamfered soffits. There are scrolled iron railings to a short flight of steps, and simple grills to the basement openings. The terrace appears on Collard and Hurst’s 1822 plan of Ramsgate and was built as part of a larger scheme with Nos. 5 to 19 and the now demolished late 18th-century chapel that stood between the two rows of houses.