THE OLD COACH HOUSE AND SUNNY LODGE

THE OLD COACH HOUSE AND SUNNY LODGE, SPENCER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390066
Date first listed:: 07-May-2002
List Entry Name:: THE OLD COACH HOUSE AND SUNNY LODGE
Statutory Address:: THE OLD COACH HOUSE AND SUNNY LODGE, SPENCER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390066
Date first listed:: 07-May-2002
List Entry Name:: THE OLD COACH HOUSE AND SUNNY LODGE
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD COACH HOUSE AND SUNNY LODGE, 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:: THE OLD COACH HOUSE AND SUNNY LODGE, 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 30252 69780

Details

878/0/10030

BIRCHINGTON SPENCER ROAD The Old Coach House and Sunny Lodge 08-MAY-02

GV II Built as a pair of stables with servants quarters above, now a pair of houses. Built c1882, architect John Pollard Seddon with sgraffito panels executed by the sculptor George Frampton. Ground floor roughcast, first floor applied timber framing and roughcast. Half-hipped renewed pantiled roof with brick chimneystack capped with terracotta.

Two storeys: three windows to sides, two to front. Some original windows with glazing bars to upper parts to first floor, some replacement windows. Ground floor has C20 metal-framed casements and French windows. Sides have penticed brick C20 porches and garage extensions. Sunny Lodge has an extension added in 1911. The principal external feature is a series of sgraffito panels of cherubs undertaking Kentish games and pastimes. The front also has a panel inscribed "J P Seddon ARIBA Arch".

INTERIOR: Sunny Lodge retains original staircase of half-winder type but with stick balusters covered over, some four-panelled doors and a first floor room with original built-in cupboards and a wooden bolection-moulded fireplace with tiled surround along one wall. The Old Coach house has a similar staircase.

History: These are two of five stables with servants' accommodation above built to serve John Pollard Seddon's Tower Bungalows. The sgraffito panels may have been made in Frampton's studio and assembled on site. The subject matter includes skaters, a blacksmith with anvil and horseshoes, cherubs pulling a chariot, sailing ships etc. There are very few examples in England of sgraffito work and these examples at Birchington are thought to be the only examples executed by George Frampton.

[Jane Lamb "Sgraffito in England 1600-1950." 1998.]

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Legacy System number:: 489019
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Lamb, J, Sgraffito in England 1600 to 1950, (1998)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.