Listed Building: URSULINE CONVENT SCHOOL (1088988)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 878, 9, 121
Date assigned 22 February 1973
Date last amended

Description

CANTERBURY ROAD 1. 1380 WESTGATE-ON-SEA No 225 (Ursuline Convent School) TR 36 NW 9/121 II 2. Built in 1886 as a private house, reputedly for a tea planter. The front elevation is of 2 to 3 storeys red brick with stone window dressings, 3 gables. Some sashes, some modified Venetian windows and some mullions and transoms. Ground floor porch with open pediment containing moulded shell and 2 plain Tuscan columns and 2 pilasters. The rear elevation has 3 gables, 2 of them curved. Good interior of the period. Staircase with heavy carved balusters, the Parlour has a Neo-Jacobean plasterwork ceiling of scrolls and putti and the Library has a strapwork plastered ceiling. Fireplaces with swag or scroll decorations and 1 marble fireplace with pilasters in the shape of terms and a swag frieze. Listing NGR: TR3351669845

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Sources (1)

  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TR 3163 6952 (point)
Map sheet TR36NW
Civil Parish MARGATE, THANET, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 9:41AM