Wells House

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TR 2035 SE 7/37

SANDGATE RADNOR CLIFF CRESENT (west side) Wells House

(Formerly listed as Spade House)

GV II* Mid C19 with additions of 1903 Designed by C F A Voysey, architect, for H G Wells. Two storeys. White roughcast walls, stone dressings. Mullioned windows with leaded lights. Tiled roof. Entrance front has doorway with Tudor arch. Two storeyed canted bay of stone to left. To left mullioned windows to first floor. Sloping buttress at corners. Two storeyed block at right angles added in 1920s. Canted front of two storeys. To the right the ground rises to first floor garden porch flanked by hipped bay windows. To left mullioned windows on both floors. Canted bay window to left with balcony above. Sloping buttress. End gable tile hung. Tall roughcast chimneystacks.

The interior contains arched doorcases and a staircase which incorporates two round-headed arches divided by a twisted column. It was at Wells House that Wells wrote 'Mankind in the making', 'A Modern Utopia', 'In the Days of the Comet', 'The New Machiavelli', 'The War in the Air', 'Tono Bungay', 'Bungay', 'Anticipations', 'The Food of the Gods', 'Ann Veronica', 'Kipps', 'The History of Mr Polly', 'New Worlds for Old', and 'First and Last Things'.

Wells House forms a group with Endcliffe House, St Paul's Vicarage and Vicarage Cottage. Sea Lady and East Cliff House. Vicarage Road.

Listing NGR: TR2093535326