Fair Outlook
FAIR OUTLOOK, SPENCER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260357
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Fair Outlook
- Statutory Address:
- FAIR OUTLOOK, SPENCER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260357
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Fair Outlook
- Statutory Address 1:
- FAIR OUTLOOK, 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:
- FAIR OUTLOOK, 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 30110 69837
Details
SPENCER ROAD 1. 5283 BIRCHINGTON-ON-SEA TR 36 NW Fair Outlook SP 777 0/777
II 2. Bungalow. 1872-73; by John Taylor, possibly on a plot of land bought by John Pollard Seddon. Walls faced with stone within framework of lacing courses and quoins of special bricks. One storey. Sash windows with horns and without glazing bars. Long flank east elevation with five windows; at north end, four steps to gabled stone and brick porch with side benches and pair of half-glazed two-panel doors. The south end with wide gable with overhanging eaves on brackets; triangular headed sash window above lean-to against ground floor, which has central half-glazed door, flanked each side by one sash window and one small window. NW tower of brick and stone with pyramidal roof. Either the third, fourth or fifth bungalow to be built in the British Isles, at either Westgate or Birchington-on-Sea, and one of the very few early examples still extant. Taylor's bungalows incorporated his patented building materials and methods, for instance to counteract rising damp. See Anthony D King, The Bungalow, 1984
Listing NGR: TR3465869420
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441039
- 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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