Tower Bungalows White Cliffe
TOWER BUNGALOWS, SPENCER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241779
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Tower Bungalows White Cliffe
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER BUNGALOWS, SPENCER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241779
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Tower Bungalows White Cliffe
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWER BUNGALOWS, SPENCER ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- WHITE CLIFFE, SPENCER ROAD
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER BUNGALOWS, SPENCER ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE CLIFFE, 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 30226 69818
Details
TOWER BUNGALOWS, SPENCER ROAD 1. 5283 BIRCHINTON-ON-SEA White Cliffe TR 36 NW SP775 0/775 II GV
2. Bungalow. 1881-82; designed by John Pollard Seddon and built an a plot of land owned by Seddon. Stuccoed, retaining some original timber-framed sgraffito panels. Slate roof. Two chief rooms face the sea; NW tower; small octagonal hall and central spine corridor; S lean-to and small later flat-roofed extension. One storey. Sashwindows. Wide south gable with overhanging eaves on brackets; triangular headed stained glass sash above ground floor lean-to retaining sgrattifo panels. Two canted bay windows in E elevation merge into narrow central recess, as in N elevation to sea. N elevation with wide gable and with late C19 or early C20 glazed verandah, with some stained glass lights, against ground floor. W elevation with brick plinth, and with main roof descending low over wood-framed and trellised open- sided verandah, with access steps at N and S ends to quarry tile path; in west wall of bungalow, two three-light sash windows, a further sash window, a small window and a further sash. Tower with a sash window to each of three sides on upper floor; pyramidal roof; weathervane. Interior: entrance lobby with mosaic floor of possibly Mr Rust's manufacture, as used elsewhere in the same period by Seddon; lantern to octagonal hall; four panel doors: NE and NW rooms each with segmental alcove in outer walls and panels to double pitched ceilings; art deco bathroom. The least altered of Seddon's Tower Bungalows. See Anthony D King, The Bungalw,1984.
Listing NGR: TR3465869420
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441017
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
King, A D, The Bungalow, (1984)
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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