Tower Bungalows White Cliffe

Tower Bungalows is a bungalow located on Spencer Road in Birchington-on-Sea, built between 1881 and 1882. It was designed by John Pollard Seddon and constructed on land owned by him. The building features a stucco exterior and retains some original timber-framed sgraffito panels, topped with a slate roof.

The bungalow is one storey high and has two main rooms that face the sea. It includes a northwest tower, a small octagonal hall, and a central spine corridor, along with a lean-to and a small later flat-roofed extension. The south gable is wide, with overhanging eaves supported by brackets, and features a triangular-headed stained glass sash window above the ground floor lean-to, which also retains sgraffito panels.

On the east elevation, there are two canted bay windows that merge into a narrow central recess, similar to the northern elevation facing the sea. The north elevation has a wide gable and a late 19th or early 20th-century glazed verandah with some stained glass lights at the ground floor. The west elevation has a brick plinth, and the main roof slopes low over a wood-framed and trellised open-sided verandah, with access steps at both the north and south ends leading to a quarry tile path. The west wall of the bungalow features two three-light sash windows, an additional sash window, a small window, and another sash window.

The tower has a sash window on each of its three sides at the upper floor, topped with a pyramidal roof and a weathervane. Inside, there is an entrance lobby with a mosaic floor, possibly made by Mr. Rust, as used by Seddon during the same period. The octagonal hall has a lantern, and there are four-panel doors throughout. The northeast and northwest rooms each have a segmental alcove in the outer walls and panels on their double-pitched ceilings, along with an art deco bathroom. This bungalow is noted as the least altered of Seddon's Tower Bungalows.