Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26534633

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