East Cliff House

ALL SAINTS' STREET 1. 5204 (East Side) No 74 (East Cliff House) TQ 8209 NE 8/74 II GV 2. At one time the house of Edward Capel, Shakespearian critic and friend of David Garrick. A tablet on the house records that Garrick frequently stayed here with Edward Capel. Built circa 1762, altered subsequently. Side facing All Saints' Street, cement rendered of little interest, but has quite fine doorway, recessed in arch, flanked by Doric pilasters, large fanlight with lantern in middle. Front to Parade has projecting late Victorian shop front (very much altered) forming a terrace to the old house above of circa 1762 and largely intact: ground floor rusticated stucco with voussoirs. 2 storeys. Upper floor yellow stock brick. Tiled hipped roof. Stone modillion cornice and parapet. Ground floor centre of 3 arched windows between 2-storeyed canted bay windows. 1st floor centre of 3 French windows, between end bay windows, with cast-iron balcony. Centre lst floor window in moulded shouldered architrave, front of 1st floor of bay window with moulded architraves with aprons. To left and right of front set back slightly, 2 storeys, one bay wide, red brick, sashes without glazing bars, hipped tiled roofs. Rendered chimney stacks. Interior: good staircase of the period.

All the listed buildings in All Saints' Street form a group. Also No 74 form a group with No 2 and Lavender House Rock-a-Nore Road (No 2 is a building of local interest.

Listing NGR: TQ8259309518