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Poet's Corner

A Grade II Listed Building in Birchington, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.3804 / 51°22'49"N

Longitude: 1.3067 / 1°18'24"E

OS Eastings: 630200

OS Northings: 169782

OS Grid: TR302697

Mapcode National: GBR WZW.F5J

Mapcode Global: VHLG5.LKNN

Plus Code: 9F3398J4+5M

Entry Name: Poet's Corner

Listing Date: 30 June 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1260368

English Heritage Legacy ID: 440934

ID on this website: 101260368

Location: Thanet, Kent, CT7

County: Kent

District: Thanet

Civil Parish: Birchington

Built-Up Area: Margate

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

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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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