JACOB'S LADDER

JACOB'S LADDER, MILITARY ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031336
Date first listed:: 30-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: JACOB'S LADDER
Statutory Address:: JACOB'S LADDER, MILITARY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031336
Date first listed:: 30-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: JACOB'S LADDER
Statutory Address 1:: JACOB'S LADDER, MILITARY ROAD

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

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: JACOB'S LADDER, MILITARY ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Thanet (District Authority)
Parish:: Ramsgate
National Grid Reference:: TR 38106 64506

Details

RAMSGATE ROYAL HARBOUR TR 3864 NW (Military Road) 13/355 Jacob's Ladder 30.10.85 GV II Flight of steps. 1826 by John Shaw. Ashlar. Dog-leg stairs with three flights of steps faced with ashlar and built between flanking towers with rounded fronts of ashlar, each flight of steps with wide central pilaster; centre landings. Iron balustrade. Flights of steps and towers with ashlar coping. The present stair replaces an earlier wooden flight of c.1750, 100 yards east. (Busson, Ramsgate, Cap.3; Matkin, Maritime Thanet).

Listing NGR: TR3810664506

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Legacy System number:: 171991
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Busson, C , Book of Ramsgate
Matkin, R B, Maritime Thanet, (1982)

Legal

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