Poet's Corner is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1986. Coach-house.

Poet's Corner

WRENN ID
dusk-flue-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Thanet
Constituency
Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 June 1986
Type
Coach-house
Address
Poet's Corner, Spencer Road, Birchington
OS grid reference
TR 302 697
Coordinates
51.38038, 1.3067
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Poet's Corner is a former coach-house and service quarters to the Tower Bungalows, built between 1881 and 1882 by John Pollard Seddon. The building features a yellow brick ground floor with a red brick string course and timber-framed sgraffito panels on the upper floor. It has a hipped roof made of original self-locking tiles, complete with end finials. The windows have small upper panes, and both the north and south end elevations each have a central three-light window above, flanked by sgraffito panels. At the south end, this window is positioned above a later 20th-century three-light window, while at the north end, it is above a modern flat-roofed extension. The west elevation showcases twelve sgraffito panels surrounding two two-light windows, one three-light window, and one single-light window. The original ground floor openings are partly concealed by a later lean-to that encloses two windows and a porch, as well as by a later bay window to the south. The rear elevation is unfenestrated and features a continuous strip of sgraffito panels above the ground floor.

Local climate

Poet's Corner sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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