DELMONTE AND THE GALLEON TOWER BUNGALOWS

DELMONTE AND THE GALLEON, SPENCER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241766
Date first listed:: 30-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: DELMONTE AND THE GALLEON TOWER BUNGALOWS
Statutory Address:: DELMONTE AND THE GALLEON, SPENCER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241766
Date first listed:: 30-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: DELMONTE AND THE GALLEON TOWER BUNGALOWS
Statutory Address 1:: DELMONTE AND THE GALLEON, SPENCER ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: TOWER BUNGALOWS, SPENCER ROAD

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:: DELMONTE AND THE GALLEON, SPENCER ROAD
Statutory Address:: TOWER BUNGALOWS, SPENCER ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Thanet (District Authority)
Parish:: Birchington
National Grid Reference:: TR 30244 69808

Details

TOWER BUNGALOWS, SPENCER ROAD 1. 5283 BIRCHINGTON-ON-SEA Delmonte and The Galleon TR 36 NW SP 774 0/774

II G.V.

2. Bungalow. 1881-82; by John Pollard Seddon, possibly on part of a plot of land bought by him in late 1860s. Stuccoed. Two chief rooms facing the sea; central spine corridor; N.W. tower; south lean-to, originally with sgraffito panels, later extended and re-constructed in 1911 for bathroom and later furnished with a flat roof. C19 sash windows with horns and small panes at top and bottom, except where stated. In W elevation, from S, two triple sashes, single sash, small window and converted sash, with lean-to verandah surviving only at N. end as porch roof, though with N and S access steps to verandah path retained. Similar windows in east elevation. Tower with pyramidal roof and finial, retaining C19 windows in S and W sides, but with larger C20 window inserted in N side. N elevation with wide gable and overhanging eaves on brackets; two wide canted bays merging with narrow central arched recess, with C20 single pane windows inserted into centre lights; set back each side, a flight of steps from garden leads up to a screened passage in front of a four panel door. Interior: entrance lobby with mosaic floor of tulip design, and a possibility of Mr Rust's manufacture, as used elsewhere in the same period by Seddon. Octagonal centre hall; four panel doors; bedrooms with C19 fireplace surrounds NE and NW rooms with plan identical to same rooms in White Cliffe, eg. with alcoves in outer walls. One of four Tower Bungalows by Seddon, which in turn are amongst the earliest extant late C19 bungalows in Britain. See Anthony D King, The Bungalow, 1984.

Listing NGR: TR3024469808

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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King, A D, The Bungalow, (1984)

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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.