It remains a, privately owned, functioning cinema and is a Grade II listed building.

[1] The 1860s saw the completion of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway with its terminal at Margate opening in 1863.

[2] This led to the construction of a number of resorts along the Kent coast to the west of Margate, including Westgate-on-Sea.

[4] John Newman, in his Kent: Northeast and East Pevsner, describes the Carlton as "an extraordinary mélange of disparate motifs".

[3] A central, crenellated clock tower is flanked by two-storey, gabled wings[5] with chimneystacks of an "outsized" Tudoresque appearance.