Ramsey Courthouse For Sale

[Douglas Prom 169]

It's been confirmed that the redundant building known as the former Ramsey Courthouse is being sold off for £475k

 

http://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/ramsey-courthouse-for-sale-minister-confirms/

 

Great news and hopefully the start of many such government owned buildings being sold off!

[Tempus Fugit 1,061]

are they selling the war memorial too ?

[GD4ELI 1,861]

At that price it should include Ramsey as well.

[woody2 878]

unsafe to enter apparently......

[mojomonkey 1,729]

At that price it should include Ramsey as well.

 

 

unsafe to enter apparently......

 

Ramsey isn't that bad.

[Douglas Prom 169]

unsafe to enter apparently......

Pull it down would be another option then!

[pongo 1,106]

I'm fairly certain, perhaps I am wrong though, that the Courthouse was paid for by public subscription for the common good.

[John Wright 1,883]

I'm fairly certain, perhaps I am wrong though, that the Courthouse was paid for by public subscription for the common good.

Not quite.

 

Northern Courts were held in church halls and all sorts of odd places.

 

A new court was being built in Douglas by the Duke of Atholl as Governor out of revenues belonging to the Crown after revestment (on the southernmost extremity of North Quay where one small bit of it remains).

 

The Lt Governor asked for funds to build a Ramsey Court. The UK Treasury provided the land out of Island revenues and the majority of the building work wasfinanced by publicly raised funds, not taxation. It was supposed to be a court house and an public assembly rooms for Ramsey and the North.

 

It was almost identical to the one in Douglas, designed by the same architect, who also designed the Castlemona (Steuart)

 

Not sure exactly what is being sold off.

 

Some of the group in Ramsey who want to preserve it apparently claim it cant be sold because it is held on trust for the use of the people of Ramsey and once no longer required as a Court should be returned to them.

 

Worth remembering there wasn't a Ramsey Town council back then, there's no trust deed. It belonged to the Crown in its right of Mann and was transferred to the Government Property Trustees along with all of the Crown Property by a deed numbered 1947/1 in the Deeds Registry, which included Castle Rushen, Peel castle and lost of other interesting bits and pieces

[notwell 4,445]

It will be interesting to see what it eventually gets used for.

 

My money is on religious money buying it

[TheTeapot 930]

It'll become a fucking Costa.

[notwell 4,445]

Er.......... it wont.

[pongo 1,106]

Thanks for posting that interesting and informed snippet of history John Wright.

[x-in-man 1,339]

Er.......... it wont.

Starbucks then.

[gettafa 1,494]

Well surely, at least it's better than the shenanigans surrounding the sale of the Ramsey Post Office.

[piebaps 1,141]

Hopefully it'll be knocked down and made into a tower block of apartments to compliment Kings Court. It would be Ramsey's twin towers.