Listed Building: POET'S CORNER (1260368)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 878, 0, 773
Date assigned 30 June 1986
Date last amended

Description

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

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TR 3020 6978 (point)
Map sheet TR36NW
Civil Parish BIRCHINGTON, THANET, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 9:41AM