Hotel St Placids and Railed Area is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1988. Hotel. 2 related planning applications.
Hotel St Placids and Railed Area
- WRENN ID
- sheer-remnant-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1988
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Hotel St Placids and Railed Area, 1-2, Victoria Parade, Ramsgate, CT11 8DE
- OS grid reference
- TR 387 651
- Coordinates
- 51.335, 1.42599
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hotel St. Placids is a hotel built in the 1860s, located on Victoria Parade in Ramsgate. The building is rendered and features an interlocking tiled roof. It has four storeys and a basement, with a rusticated base that includes cill bands and rusticated quoins on the left-hand block, which slightly projects. This block has a modillion eaves cornice and a hipped roof with stacks on the left and center right.
The right-hand block has three sash windows on the third floor with moulded surrounds, three more on the second floor with cornices on brackets, and three French doors leading to a tented verandah that has valancing, trellised piers, and cast iron rails. There is also a canted bay to the right and a glazed porch.
The left-hand block features tripartite sashed windows on each floor, with French windows on the first floor. This block has pilasters and a segmental pediment on the second floor, along with a tented verandah supported by cast iron piers and rails on large consoles. There is a full-height canted bay on the left return and a single-storey porch with Doric columns.
At the rear left, there is a three-storey rendered block with canted bays. The entire building is surrounded by a railed area with spearhead rails and principals topped with pomegranate finials.
Local climate
Hotel St Placids and Railed Area 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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