Tower Bungalows White Cliffe

TOWER BUNGALOWS, SPENCER ROAD 1. 5283 BIRCHINTON-ON-SEA White Cliffe TR 36 NW SP775 0/775 II GV

1. Bungalow. 1881-82; designed by John Pollard Seddon and built an a plot of land owned by Seddon. Stuccoed, retaining some original timber-framed sgraffito panels. Slate roof. Two chief rooms face the sea; NW tower; small octagonal hall and central spine corridor; S lean-to and small later flat-roofed extension. One storey. Sashwindows. Wide south gable with overhanging eaves on brackets; triangular headed stained glass sash above ground floor lean-to retaining sgrattifo panels. Two canted bay windows in E elevation merge into narrow central recess, as in N elevation to sea. N elevation with wide gable and with late C19 or early C20 glazed verandah, with some stained glass lights, against ground floor. W elevation with brick plinth, and with main roof descending low over wood-framed and trellised open- sided verandah, with access steps at N and S ends to quarry tile path; in west wall of bungalow, two three-light sash windows, a further sash window, a small window and a further sash. Tower with a sash window to each of three sides on upper floor; pyramidal roof; weathervane. Interior: entrance lobby with mosaic floor of possibly Mr Rust's manufacture, as used elsewhere in the same period by Seddon; lantern to octagonal hall; four panel doors: NE and NW rooms each with segmental alcove in outer walls and panels to double pitched ceilings; art deco bathroom. The least altered of Seddon's Tower Bungalows. See Anthony D King, The Bungalw,1984.

Listing NGR: TR3465869420