Description

SZ5881
1352-0/8/204
27/09/90

SHANKLIN
OSBORNE ROAD
Keats Inn

II

Inn originally built as Shanklin Club. c1880 in mixture of
Gothic and Mughal styles. rubble with modern concrete tiled
roof and wooden and cast iron detailing. 1 to 2 storeys on
sloping site. 3 bays. West elevation has central 2 storey
half-hipped section with fretted bargeboards flanked by 1
storey sections with gables having fretted bargeboards and
quatrefoil motif. These have no window and elaborate wooden
brackets. Elaborate balcony of 2 storeys, the ground floor on
circular columns, the upper on chamfered square columns, all
with curved cast iron brackets and railings. In the centre the
balcony projects to from a port-cochere. Side elevations have
1 hipped and 1 half-hipped gable and the balcony continues to
the east elevation which has a central large half-hipped gable
with central quatrefoil motif and elaborate fretted wooden
bargeboards flanked by 2 smaller gables also with fretted
bargeboards and quatrefoil motif. 3 French windows to 1st
floor. Casements to ground floor. Steps with stone balustrade
to centre. This building is stylistically similar to the
Chalet cafe (see Rylstone Garden) and may be by the same hand.

Listing NGR: SZ5851781366

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26285833

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)