TOWNLEY HOUSE MANSION

TOWNLEY HOUSE MANSION, CHATHAM STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1336642
Date first listed:: 13-Sep-1974
List Entry Name:: TOWNLEY HOUSE MANSION
Statutory Address:: TOWNLEY HOUSE MANSION, CHATHAM STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1336642
Date first listed:: 13-Sep-1974
List Entry Name:: TOWNLEY HOUSE MANSION
Statutory Address 1:: TOWNLEY HOUSE MANSION, CHATHAM STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TOWNLEY HOUSE MANSION, CHATHAM STREET

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County:: Kent
District:: Thanet (District Authority)
Parish:: Ramsgate
National Grid Reference:: TR 37991 65337

Details

RAMSGATE CHATHAM STREET TR 3765 SE (west side) 8/93 Townley House 13.9.74 Mansion GV II* House, now furniture showrooms 1792 by Mrs. Mary Townley. Rendered with slate roof. Three storeys projecting central block and 2 storey wings, on plinth, with rusticated ground floor, string course and cornice to roof, with balustraded panelled parapet to wings. Stacks to left and to right of centre block. Five bays to centre, 2 to each wing. Glazing bar sashes throughout, of extra large size on ground floor of wings. Large projecting 2 storey bow to centre, on 5 arches on Tuscan columns, with balcony over whole bow, cornice and balustraded parapet. Central French window on 1st floor, with Y-tracery fanlight, and deep niches left and right with classical statues. Central glazed door with rectangular fanlight. Interior: simple balustraded elliptical stair with open string. Arched entrance passageway. Simple moulded cornices and skirting to main rooms, with fine metal fittings to door. The house was designed and lived in by Mary Townley, a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the Townleys were the leaders of late C18/early C19 Ramsgate Society, the house receiving many distinguished and royal visitors. (See Bussan, Ramsgate, 68; see also Ramsgate Town Trail Guide).

Listing NGR: TR3799165337

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Legacy System number:: 171722
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Sources

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Ramsgate Town Trail Guide
Busson, C , Book of Ramsgate68

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.