Poet's Corner
POET'S CORNER, SPENCER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260368
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Poet's Corner
- Statutory Address:
- POET'S CORNER, SPENCER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260368
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Poet's Corner
- Statutory Address 1:
- POET'S CORNER, 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:
- POET'S CORNER, 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 30200 69782
Details
SPENCER ROAD 1. 5283 BIRCHINGTON-ON-SEA TR 36 NW Poet's Corner SP 773 0/773
II G.V.
2. Former coach-house and service quarters to the Tower Bungalows. 1881-82 by John Pollard Seddon; sgraffito panels by George Frampton. Yellow brick ground floor with red brick string. Timber framed sgraffito panels on upper floor. Hipped roof of original self-locking tiles with end finials. Windows with small upper panes. N and S end elevations each with a centre three-light window above, with flanking sgraffito panels, at S. end above a later C20 three-light window, and at N end above a modern flat-roofed extension. W. elevation with twelve sgraffito panels framing two two-light, a three-light and a single-light windows; original ground floor openings concealed partly by a later lean-to enclosing two windows and a porch, and by a later bay window to south. Unfenestrated rear elevation with a continuous strip of sgraffito panels above the ground floor. 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:
- 440934
- 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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