Sea Tower Sea Tower Cottage Tower Bungalows

Sea Tower and Sea Tower Cottage, located on Spencer Road in Birchington-on-Sea, is a bungalow built between 1881 and 1882. It is one of the group of Tower Bungalows designed by John Pollard Seddon. The building features stuccoed walls with a west plinth made of stone panels framed in brick, and a self-locking tile roof, except for the south billiard room which has been re-roofed. The roof slopes low over the west flank elevation, where there is a verandah with access steps at both the north and south ends.

Inside, there are two main rooms facing the sea, a central spine corridor, a south billiard room, and a northwest tower. The windows are sash style, with small panels at the top and bottom, except where noted. The south end has a three-light transomed window and a window on each return, while the east elevation has five windows and the west tower has six or seven windows, featuring a pyramidal roof and finial, although it has been altered with the insertion of mid or late 20th-century windows. The north elevation includes two wide canted bays that merge into a narrow central recess, with single-pane windows added to the centre lights of the bays.

The interior retains four-panel doors and decorated exposed beams on the ceiling. The billiard room has a Queen post roof, and both the northeast and northwest rooms have segmental alcoves in the outer walls, each featuring richly variegated marble fireplace surrounds, likely designed by Seddon. This bungalow is one of four by Seddon and is among the earliest surviving bungalows built in Britain in the late 19th century.