Droit House
The Droit House is a Grade II listed building and former customs house in Margate that was redesigned by William Edmunds. It was originally built in 1812 and rebuilt in 1828–30. It was destroyed during the Second World War but was rebuilt in 1947.Photo: Geni, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Opening hours: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
- Type: Tourism office
- Description: house in Thanet, Kent, England, UK
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Crab Museum and Tudor House.
Crab Museum
Museum
The Crab Museum is a small idiosyncratic museum in Margate, Kent, England. Billed as "Europe’s first and only museum dedicated to the decapod", it was founded in 2021 by Chase Coley, Bertie Suesat-Williams, and Ned Suesat-Williams. Crab Museum is situated 520 feet south of Droit House.
Tudor House
Museum
Photo: Geni, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tudor House is a museum, which is situated 890 feet southeast of Droit House.
Margate Lifeboat Station
Building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Margate Lifeboat Station is located on The Rendezvous, in Margate, a seaside town on the Isle of Thanet peninsula, the north eastern corner of the English county of Kent. Margate Lifeboat Station is situated 370 feet northeast of Droit House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Margate and Cliftonville.
Margate
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Margate is a seaside resort on the north Kent coast, with a population in 2021 of more than 64,000. It's suffered the usual decline of English seaside towns but its beach is still thronged on warm summer weekends, and there are several places of interest for cold wet days.
Cliftonville
Suburb
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cliftonville is a coastal area of Margate in the Thanet district of Kent, England. It includes the Palm Bay estate, built in the 1930s with wide avenues and detached and semi-detached houses with driveways, garages and gardens.
Westbrook
Suburb
Photo: JoshTilley, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Westbrook is a Victorian seaside resort on the Thanet peninsula in the southeast corner of England. It is the westernmost part of Margate and is part of the ribbon development of the north Kent coast. Westgate-on-Sea lies to the west.
Droit House
- Categories: house, information, building, and tourism
- Location: Thanet District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.39121° or 51° 23′ 28″ northLongitude
1.38129° or 1° 22′ 53″ eastLevels
1Open location code
9F3399RJ+FGOpenStreetMap ID
way 137689235OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=informationWikidata ID
Q26499594
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