Listed Building record TR 36 NW 1036 - TOWER BUNGALOWS

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1881 to 1882

Location

Grid reference TR 3022 6981 (point)
Map sheet TR36NW
District THANET, KENT
Civil Parish BIRCHINGTON, THANET, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TOWER BUNGALOWS, SPENCER ROAD 1. 5283 BIRCHINTON-ON-SEA White Cliffe TR 36 NW SP775 0/775
II GV
2. Bungalow. 1881-82; designed by John Pollard Seddon and built an a plot of land owned by Seddon. Stuccoed, retaining some original timber-framed sgraffito panels. Slate roof. Two chief rooms face the sea; NW tower; small octagonal hall and central spine corridor; S lean-to and small later flat-roofed extension. One storey. Sashwindows. Wide south gable with overhanging eaves on brackets; triangular headed stained glass sash above ground floor lean-to retaining sgrattifo panels. Two canted bay windows in E elevation merge into narrow central recess, as in N elevation to sea. N elevation with wide gable and with late C19 or early C20 glazed verandah, with some stained glass lights, against ground floor. W elevation with brick plinth, and with main roof descending low over wood-framed and trellised open- sided verandah, with access steps at N and S ends to quarry tile path; in west wall of bungalow, two three-light sash windows, a further sash window, a small window and a further sash. Tower with a sash window to each of three sides on upper floor; pyramidal roof; weathervane. Interior: entrance lobby with mosaic floor of possibly Mr Rust's manufacture, as used elsewhere in the same period by Seddon; lantern to octagonal hall; four panel doors: NE and NW rooms each with segmental alcove in outer walls and panels to double pitched ceilings; art deco bathroom. The least altered of Seddon's Tower Bungalows. See Anthony D King, The Bungalw,1984.
Listing NGR: TR3465869420


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

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Aug 12 2009 2:39AM