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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 23 NW 449 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | ST ANDREWS HOTEL AND CHAPEL |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1881 to 1889
| Grid Reference: | TR 2340 3620 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR23NW |
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| Parish: | FOLKESTONE, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Post Medieval - 1881 AD to 1889 AD)
- (Alternate Type) HOSPITAL (Modern - 1914 AD to 1918 AD (at some time))
Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
EAST CLIFF GARDENS 1. 5281 FOLKESTONE St Andrews Guest House and Chapel TR 2336 SW 3/98 II 2. Built 1881-1882 by Ewan Christian, Chapel, added in 1889. The chapel is of red brick with a tiled roof and pentagonal apse. Brick cornice with the bricks set diagonally. Brick, buttresses. Gabled West end with bellcote and tower. St Andrew's Guest House adjoins at right angles. 4 storeys and attics red brick with some flint courses. Mullioned and transomed windows. The garden elevation of the Guest House has 3 lower storeys of red brick and the upper storeys are cement rendered. It consists of a centre and 2 end projecting gabled wings of 1 bay. Tiled roof. The centre part has 5 hipped dormers with ceramic finials and 2 dormers to a 2nd attic storey. The 2nd floor has 5 mullioned and transomed casements, and iron balconies. The ends have pedimented gables with one 5-light casement to the attic storey, one 4-light mullioned and transomed casement to the 2nd floor and one 5-light brick bay to the ground and 1st floors.
St Andrews Guest House and Chapel shall be amended to read : St Andrews Hotel and Chapel Lines 5 and 7 of the descriptive notes the words "Guest House" shall be amended to read "Hotel".
1. 5281 EAST CLIFF GARDENS FOLKESTONE St Andrews Guest House Andrews Guest House and Chapel TR 2336 SW 3/98 II 2. Built 1881-1882 by Ewan Christian, Chapel added in 1889. The chapel is of red brick with a tiled roof and pentagonal apse. Brick cornice with the bricks set diagonally. Brick buttresses. Gabled West end with bellcote and tower. St Andrew's Guest House adjoins at right angles. 4 storeys and attics red brick with some flint courses. Mullioned and transomed windows. The garden elevation of the Guest House has the 3 lower storeys of red brick and the upper storeys are cement rendered. It consists of a centre and 2 end projecting gabled wires of 1 bay. Tiled roof. The centre part has 5 hipped dormers with ceramic finials and 2 dormers to a 2nd attic storey. file 2nd floor has 5 mullioned and transomed casements, some 2 and sane 3 lights. The 2nd and 1st floors have verandahs with tiled canopies and iron balconies. The ends have pedimented gables with one; 5-light casement to the attic storey, one 4-light mullioned and transomed casement to the 2nd floor and one 5-light brick bay to file ground and lst floors.
Listing NGR: TR2340736208
St Andrews Home was known as a Convalescent and Nursing home prior to the First World War, during the War it was used as a hospital with 28 beds, receiving Naval convalescents.
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
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 | | --- | 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. |
