Found this bit of information on the internet about the houses on my last couple of posts 🙂 One rare surviving group of the early seaside holiday home type of bungalow were listed Grade II in 1994. In 1901 six Great Eastern railway carriages were placed two to a plot close to the beach in Sutton on Sea in Lincolnshire. The list description calls them ‘very early, important and well preserved examples’. [Left: Wavelands: the two carriages are supported on walls to create the first floor accommodation.] [Middle: Marsoville has a similar architectural style to Wavelands but the carriages are on the ground floor.] [Right: below the barrel-vaulted roof, the shape of the carriages can be seen clearly on the front of the property] Perhaps the most interesting of the three, Wavelands, is a full two-storey house with the two carriages supported on walls to create the first floor accommodation. Aside from having two railway carriages cunningly disguised as a house, it has very much the appearance of a fashionable seaside house of its time, with a first floor verandah with wavy splat balusters, a decorative timber quatrefoil and slit frieze, a large bay window, black-and-white timbering, rendered walls and a plain tile roof. Marsoville has a similar architectural style but with the carriages on the ground floor. The arched open ground-floor verandah has glazed diamond panels set in each end. The third property, Lindum, is the only single-storey building of the three and, as a result, the only one to have received substantial modern extension. Below the barrel-vaulted roof, the shape of the carriages can be seen clearly on the front of the property as well as the window sides. It has a simple appearance alongside its more highly decorated late Victorian neighbours, almost leading towards art deco. An early photograph shows Wavelands and Marsoville, completed and inhabited, while Lindum was still simply two railway carriages set down some feet away from each other, without any infilled central area.

Posted by jeg_60 at 2021-09-10 09:28:54 UTC