Keats Inn

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

SHANKLIN OSBORNE ROAD Keats Inn

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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