Fair Outlook

SPENCER ROAD 1. 5283 BIRCHINGTON-ON-SEA TR 36 NW Fair Outlook SP 777 0/777

II 2. Bungalow. 1872-73; by John Taylor, possibly on a plot of land bought by John Pollard Seddon. Walls faced with stone within framework of lacing courses and quoins of special bricks. One storey. Sash windows with horns and without glazing bars. Long flank east elevation with five windows; at north end, four steps to gabled stone and brick porch with side benches and pair of half-glazed two-panel doors. The south end with wide gable with overhanging eaves on brackets; triangular headed sash window above lean-to against ground floor, which has central half-glazed door, flanked each side by one sash window and one small window. NW tower of brick and stone with pyramidal roof. Either the third, fourth or fifth bungalow to be built in the British Isles, at either Westgate or Birchington-on-Sea, and one of the very few early examples still extant. Taylor's bungalows incorporated his patented building materials and methods, for instance to counteract rising damp. See Anthony D King, The Bungalow, 1984

Listing NGR: TR3465869420