Description

CANTERBURY ROAD
1.
1380
WESTGATE-ON-SEA
No 225
(Ursuline Convent
School)
TR 36 NW 9/121

II

2.
Built in 1886 as a private house, reputedly for a tea planter. The front
elevation is of 2 to 3 storeys red brick with stone window dressings, 3 gables.
Some sashes, some modified Venetian windows and some mullions and transoms.
Ground floor porch with open pediment containing moulded shell and 2 plain
Tuscan columns and 2 pilasters. The rear elevation has 3 gables, 2 of them
curved. Good interior of the period. Staircase with heavy carved balusters,
the Parlour has a Neo-Jacobean plasterwork ceiling of scrolls and putti and
the Library has a strapwork plastered ceiling. Fireplaces with swag or scroll
decorations and 1 marble fireplace with pilasters in the shape of terms and a
swag frieze.

Listing NGR: TR3163969530

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26381406

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)