Where Am I? No. 12a - Part Two of "Cazza's House"

[Jool]

Here we go..... we're all going to get hooked again.   

Just when I planned to get a good night's sleep I will be roaming around the internet with my eyes half closed at stupid o'clock 

We can't let this one go unsolved can we.

[djm297]

"Here we go..... we're all going to get hooked again."

I agree Jool !

New observation...the downstairs windows have blinds rather than curtains, which made me think about hospitals. A search of "Cottage Hospitals" led to some very similar buildings, so maybe the greenhouse was for occupational therapy?!

I'll keep looking!

djm297

[Trishanne]

My link in #239 was supposed to take you to - The Pleasaunce, Overstrand, Norfolk (that is the correct spelling for pleasaunce)..

[Jool]

Pat, it certainly ticks a lot of the boxes doesn't it.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ipn/

[Little Nell]

I wonder if it could be a row of coastguard cottages converted to a house

I don't think so.  Coastguard cottages were built to a plan and very few have changed much even when converted to houses.

I don't want to call it a  'watch' tower either since it encourages a certain train of thought, which could be misleading.

The house in this picture is a long way from the sea in west London.

Nell

[ScouseBoy]

The "observation"  tower may have been to watch the stars, and there would not have been light contamination from street lights if it was a remote location in the early years of the twentieth century

[Greensleeves]

The house looks rather 'Arts & Crafts Movement' to me; has some similarities to Red House in Bexleyheath, William Morris's house which was designed by him in association with the architect Philip Webb.  It is clearly not Red House, but certainly has that kind of 'feel' to it with the tower and some of the gable designs. 

[jim1]

Being a newbie to this post & not having read the other 27 pages what we're looking at is the rear of a "T" shaped building with a separate building beyond (as it has a different style chimney) running at right angles to the main building (if it sits on a pitched roof that is) & at the other end another (looks like newer) 2 storey building with a large greenhouse in between.
2 observations, 1, there are park style benches which indicates (to me anyway) not a private residence. 2, all of the upstairs windows are open. May be just coincidence but looks like a convalescence home for TB sufferers.
I do know that during WW1 many gas casualties were sent to the Channel Isles to recuperate.
Just a thought.

Someone mentioned the pipe running through the tower roof. Stench pipe from the loos.

[JenB]

Being a newbie to this post & not having read the other 27 pages

You also need to read the 50 pages of the first thread on this house 
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=717629.0