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Original Text (Annotation: EAW015843 / 2010901)
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Dreamland Ballroom, later the Dreamland Squash Club then offices. Now a venue, perhaps inappropriately called Hall by the Sea. The result of several extensions and refits to south of the abandoned LCDR constructed railway terminus, through Lord George Sanger's operation of Hall by the Sea and his menagerie pleasure gardens. Sections of the original menagerie perimeter wall on the west side was twice reused during this time with infilling and cladding added to make up the difference both in ground levels and roofline. The building largely survives in the second extension form now as a shell after a privately funded restoration of works with stabilisation, repointing, re-cladding and some rebuild. Just about visible here is an additional but less appeasing third extension that had been added to the south of the building and east of Sanger's cottage forming perhaps a backstage area for the ballroom. This extension was removed in 1998 by Jimmy Godden, unfortunately also taking Sanger's cottage with it. '
