Shorncliffe Lodge
Shornecliffe Lodge, Undercliffe, Sandgate, CT20 3AT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344161
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Shorncliffe Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- Shornecliffe Lodge, Undercliffe, Sandgate, CT20 3AT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344161
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Shorncliffe Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- Shornecliffe Lodge, Undercliffe, Sandgate, CT20 3AT
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:
- Shornecliffe Lodge, Undercliffe, Sandgate, CT20 3AT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sandgate
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 20256 35290
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/09/2020
TR 2035 SW
8/43
SANDGATE
UNDERCLIFF
Shorncliffe Lodge
17.4.74.
II
A mid C19 house in a whimsical Gothic style reminiscent of the Regency period. Irregular plan. The front elevation is two to three storeys and basement stuccoed. Central pedimented gable with pierced bargeboards. Lancet-headed windows with dripmoulding. Second floor windows have foliated corbels. First floor windows have eight corbels in the shape of assorted medieval heads. Square porch with round-headed arch and double lancet lights on the sides. To the left of the gabled portion is a portion sub-divided and now known as "The Keyes" with a doorcase having trefoliated heads. The portion to the right is known as 'Woodside' and has a two storey extension to its extreme right. The garden elevation has a central pierced gable, coved eaves cornice and stringcourse. Mainly casement windows on the left hand portion having iron balconettes on the second floor and with dripmoulding to the right hand portion. Two three-light bays to the ground floor and central three-light curved bow to first floor with three Gothic pointed lights and balcony with band of quatrefoils. This is supported on four square columns decorated with trefoliated panels and fan tracery above. Triple trefoliated-headed lights to French windows behind. Later glass conservatory. The garden elevation dominates the hillside above Sandgate and is partly listed for this reason.
Shorncliffe Lodge was purchased by Edward Albert Sassoon, a prominent British merchant banker and politician of the leading Baghdadi Jewish business dynasty, and his wife Aline Caroline de Rothschild, after Sassoon’s election as MP for Hythe, a constituency previously represented by Meyer de Rothschild. The Rothschild family owned property in the area since the early C19, using it as a staging point for couriers and carrier pigeons for their communication system with the Continent.
Listing NGR: TR2025635290
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 175442
- 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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