Advert for villa montrose in margate a ****

Booked online via booking.com for accomodation at villa montrose in margate upon our arrival at the address sent to us with the confirmation of the booking we were told the place no longer operates, the signage is still there but it's no longer operating. We contacted the number on our booking a guy answered and confirmed that the place was shut down but since we have paid already we must meet with him in town. We did that but that didn't help because he only asked to see the email we showed him he still insisted that the place was shut and he didn't receive the money from booking.com not sure how is that true because we made the booking on the 21 June 2019 and arrived on the 28 June 2019. I have a description of the guy he is a ******* and he refused to refund us. Can booking.com assist we getting our money back if it is paid through them?