St Andrews Hotel and Chapel

ST ANDREWS HOTEL AND CHAPEL, EAST CLIFF GARDENS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1061213
Date first listed:
11-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:
St Andrews Hotel and Chapel
Statutory Address:
ST ANDREWS HOTEL AND CHAPEL, EAST CLIFF GARDENS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1061213
Date first listed:
11-Mar-1975
Date of most recent amendment:
19-Jul-1976
List Entry Name:
St Andrews Hotel and Chapel
Statutory Address 1:
ST ANDREWS HOTEL AND CHAPEL, EAST CLIFF GARDENS

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Location

Statutory Address:
ST ANDREWS HOTEL AND CHAPEL, EAST CLIFF GARDENS

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

County:
Kent
District:
Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
Parish:
Folkestone
National Grid Reference:
TR 23407 36208

Details

EAST CLIFF GARDENS 1. 5281 FOLKESTONE St Andrews Guest House and Chapel TR 2336 SW 3/98 II 2. Built 1881-1882 by Ewan Christian, Chapel, added in 1889. The chapel is of red brick with a tiled roof and pentagonal apse. Brick cornice with the bricks set diagonally. Brick, buttresses. Gabled West end with bellcote and tower. St Andrew's Guest House adjoins at right angles. 4 storeys and attics red brick with some flint courses. Mullioned and transomed windows. The garden elevation of the Guest House has 3 lower storeys of red brick and the upper storeys are cement rendered. It consists of a centre and 2 end projecting gabled wings of 1 bay. Tiled roof. The centre part has 5 hipped dormers with ceramic finials and 2 dormers to a 2nd attic storey. The 2nd floor has 5 mullioned and transomed casements, and iron balconies. The ends have pedimented gables with one 5-light casement to the attic storey, one 4-light mullioned and transomed casement to the 2nd floor and one 5-light brick bay to the ground and 1st floors.

St Andrews Guest House and Chapel shall be amended to read : St Andrews Hotel and Chapel Lines 5 and 7 of the descriptive notes the words "Guest House" shall be amended to read "Hotel".

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1. 5281 EAST CLIFF GARDENS FOLKESTONE St Andrews Guest House Andrews Guest House and Chapel TR 2336 SW 3/98 II 2. Built 1881-1882 by Ewan Christian, Chapel added in 1889. The chapel is of red brick with a tiled roof and pentagonal apse. Brick cornice with the bricks set diagonally. Brick buttresses. Gabled West end with bellcote and tower. St Andrew's Guest House adjoins at right angles. 4 storeys and attics red brick with some flint courses. Mullioned and transomed windows. The garden elevation of the Guest House has the 3 lower storeys of red brick and the upper storeys are cement rendered. It consists of a centre and 2 end projecting gabled wires of 1 bay. Tiled roof. The centre part has 5 hipped dormers with ceramic finials and 2 dormers to a 2nd attic storey. file 2nd floor has 5 mullioned and transomed casements, some 2 and sane 3 lights. The 2nd and 1st floors have verandahs with tiled canopies and iron balconies. The ends have pedimented gables with one; 5-light casement to the attic storey, one 4-light mullioned and transomed casement to the 2nd floor and one 5-light brick bay to file ground and lst floors.

Listing NGR: TR2340736208

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
175325
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

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

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