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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 23 NW 425 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | THE NEW METROPOLE INCLUDING THE FOUNTAIN IN THE GARDEN TO THE NORTH AND SURROUNDING WALL |
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Summary
Grade II listed building.
Was used October and November 1914 for wounded belgian soldiers.
| Grid Reference: | TR 2161 3539 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR23NW |
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| Parish: | FOLKESTONE, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Post Medieval - 1895 AD to 1895 AD)
- (Alternate Type) HOSPITAL (Modern - 1914 AD to 1914 AD (at some time))
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1204004: THE NEW METROPOLE INCLUDING THE FOUNTAIN IN THE GARDEN TO THE NORTH AND SURROUNDING WALL |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5281 METROPOLE ROAD EAST FOLKESTONE The New Metropole Including the Fountain in the garden to the north and surrounding wall. TR 23 NW 10/207 13.11.73. II GV 2. Begun in 1895. Designed by T W Cutler. The sea front elevation is a rich example of what could be called the seaside Metropole Hotel style. 4 storeys and attics. 35 windows in all. Red brick, ground floor rusticated stone. Stone cornices and balconies. Slate roof. At each end and in the centre are projections of 5 windows each. The end projections are surmounted by shaped Dutch gables with scrolls flanking them. The centre has a dome with a cupola of 8 columns surmounting it, complete with ball finial and weathervane. All 3 projections have balconies, the centre ones recessed. Similar balconies centrally placed between the projections and 3 dormers on each side. Projecting beyond the ground floor towards the sea is a large conservatory or winter garden of 6 large windows on each side of the entrance of which the 2 centre windows project still further. Glass canopy between over the doorway with anthemion motif antefixae. Behind on the north side are 2 long projecting wings, the west one much longer than the east one. In the garden beyond these wings is a contemporary fountain comprising a bronze cherub holding grapes and supporting the bowl of the fountain. The New Metropole is surrounded by a low brick wall having tiled coping and cast iron finials in the shape of torcheres. Rusticated square gain piers with bands of red brick and tiles and ovolo moulding.
The New Metropole and Grand Hotels form a group.
Listing NGR: TR2161235394
Was used October and November 1914 for wounded belgian soldiers.
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
1952, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SKE1.
Hazel Basford, 2004, Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War (Unpublished document). SKE31644.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | --- | Photograph (Print): 1952. Photograph. Black and White. Negative. |
| --- | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| --- | Unpublished document: Hazel Basford. 2004. Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War. |
