Wells House

Wells House, Radnor Cliff Crescent, Sandgate, Folkestone, CT20 2JQ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1061164
Date first listed:: 11-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:: Wells House
Statutory Address:: Wells House, Radnor Cliff Crescent, Sandgate, Folkestone, CT20 2JQ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1061164
Date first listed:: 11-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:: Wells House
Statutory Address 1:: Wells House, Radnor Cliff Crescent, Sandgate, Folkestone, CT20 2JQ

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Wells House, Radnor Cliff Crescent, Sandgate, Folkestone, CT20 2JQ

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
Parish:: Sandgate
National Grid Reference:: TR 20935 35326

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11 April 2025 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.

TR 2035 SE 7/37

SANDGATE RADNOR CLIFF CRESENT (west side) Wells House

(Formerly listed as Spade House)

GV II* Mid C19 with additions of 1903 Designed by C F A Voysey, architect, for H G Wells. Two storeys. White roughcast walls, stone dressings. Mullioned windows with leaded lights. Tiled roof. Entrance front has doorway with Tudor arch. Two storeyed canted bay of stone to left. To left mullioned windows to first floor. Sloping buttress at corners. Two storeyed block at right angles added in 1920s. Canted front of two storeys. To the right the ground rises to first floor garden porch flanked by hipped bay windows. To left mullioned windows on both floors. Canted bay window to left with balcony above. Sloping buttress. End gable tile hung. Tall roughcast chimneystacks.

The interior contains arched doorcases and a staircase which incorporates two round-headed arches divided by a twisted column. It was at Wells House that Wells wrote 'Mankind in the making', 'A Modern Utopia', 'In the Days of the Comet', 'The New Machiavelli', 'The War in the Air', 'Tono Bungay', 'Bungay', 'Anticipations', 'The Food of the Gods', 'Ann Veronica', 'Kipps', 'The History of Mr Polly', 'New Worlds for Old', and 'First and Last Things'.

Wells House forms a group with Endcliffe House, St Paul's Vicarage and Vicarage Cottage. Sea Lady and East Cliff House. Vicarage Road.

Listing NGR: TR2093535326

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Legacy System number:: 175410
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.