Description

SZ 5777; 2/168

TRINITY ROAD,
Madeira Hall Hotel

II*

Early Bonchurch marine residence. Circa 1800-1820, possibly enlargement of
old cottage. Gothicised, two storeys roughly dressed stone. Half H plan, the shallow
wings gabled with large kneelers. The right hand wing contains 2-storey shallow
canted stone bay with crenellated parapet - 2 lights to front, one each side, marginal
glazing intersecting to 4-centred heads of sashes, panelled apron 1st floor. Left
hand wing has 3-light stone mullioned windows to both floors with drip moulds.
The centre, with coved string and parapet, has a 2-storey, canted stone mullioned
bay window with coved cornice to left. Small central ground floor casement with
drip mould. Glazing bar sash window with drip mould over doorway to right. This
has 3-centred arch with panelled spandrels and crenellated cornice capping. East
elevation has wooden rectangular bay window to 1st floor with glazing bar sash lights
and 2 glazing bar sashes with drip moulds. The house was inhabited in the
C19 by a Miss Dick, apparently the model for Miss Faversham in Dickens' "Great
Expectations". Macaulay was in residence here in 1848. Madeira Hall is a picturesque
building set in spacious grounds, now used as hotel.

Listing NGR: SZ5713177906

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17555730

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)