Listed Building: URSULINE CONVENT SCHOOL (1088988)
Grade | II |
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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)
- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Location
Grid reference | TR 3163 6952 (point) |
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Map sheet | TR36NW |
Civil Parish | MARGATE, THANET, KENT |
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Record last edited
Nov 16 2006 9:41AM