Listed Building record TR 36 NE 2070 - Former St Stephens college

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 36 NE
5/10000

BROADSTAIRS
NORTH FORELAND ROAD
Former St Stephens college

(Formerly listed as St Stephens college)

GV
II

School, formerly house. C1830. Stuccoed with slate roof and stuccoed end stacks. Three storeys; five windows. Parapet with coping, moulded eaves cornice and band between ground and first floors. Plinth. Second floor has six-pane sashes with horns, first floor has 12-pane sashes with horns and the ground floor has eight-pane sashes with horns. Central portico with two-thirds fluted and one-third plain Tuscan columns. Round headed doorcase with original half-glazed door with incised panel to base. To the right is a contemporary two-storey wing with balustrading with panel decorated with incised Greek Key design. One 12-pane sash to first floor and sash without glazing bars to ground floor, flanked by blank panels. The left side elevation has five windows including flat roofed dormers. Attached to left is a one-storey C19 addition with balustrading with panel of Greek Key design. Front has central large window without glazing bars flanked by blank panels, side has colonnade of four Tuscan columns and two piers.

Attached are large C20 extensions in brick and tile hanging.

Listing NGR: TR3979569275
(1)

As part of the redevelopment of the site in 1998 a survey of the building and its history was undertaken by Canterbury Archaeological Trust. The earliest element of the building is of late 18th century date. It was only two stories and constructed of red brick. This building had a large flint-lined cellar that occupied the whole ground floor area of the building. There were two ground floor rooms and two first floor rooms, arrange either side of a central lobby which housed the stairs. The rooms were not plastered internally and dowel holes suggest that the rooms were instead panelled. This building was Prospect House.

In the late Georgian period, in c. 1820-1825, the building was expanded, enlarging the building to three stories and adding a central porch. Two storey wings were added to the north and south. Ranges of outbuildings to the rear were also built at this time. By the 1830s the building was known as Northforeland Lodge. The house remained a private residence until the early 20th century, when it became a school. (2)

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Canterbury Archaeological Trust and Trust for Thanet Archaeology, 1998, St Stephen's College, North Foreland Road, Broadstairs, Kent: Architectural and Archaeological Study (Unpublished document). SKE17303.