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Sea Street, DOVER, CT15 6AR

The older buildings of Portal House School, a special needs establishment. See also Image St Margaret’s at Cliffe is a coastal village some 3 miles northeast of Dover. The village is the place in Britain that is nearest to the coast of France, 18 miles distant. The area has been settled since Anglo-Saxon times, and the village became a high class resort in the nineteenth century. The area has always been at the front line of cross Channel conflicts.

Portal House school is a Victorian building which was built in 1840. It was known as Marine House and it was owned by Mr James Temple. It was run as a ladies[‘] boarding school and by 1851 the 20 pupils had increased to 38 - one from as far away as India! Later on in 1891 the building was purchased by the Portal Benevolent Institution to be used as a convalescent home for working men, called Morley House after the founder of the institution. From 1914 to 1918 it was occupied by the military and then in 1947 it was sold to the KCC to be used as a home for the elderly until 1977 http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-636000-144000/page/8 A public notice, published in the East Kent Mercury of 15 January 2015, gave the information that there was a proposal to demolish the school and rebuild it, on its existing site, with an additional 20 places http://consultations.kent.gov.uk/consult.ti/PortalHouse/consultationHome

Planning permission has been granted by Dover District Council under application number DOV/15/01079 for the “refurbishment of original Portal House building alongside demolition of later extension and existing teaching buildings. Construction of a new three storey teaching block and gymnasium with associated hard and soft landscaping”. This is how Image used to look.

Planning permission was granted by Dover District Council under application number DOV/15/01079 for the “refurbishment of original Portal House building alongside demolition of later extension and existing teaching buildings. Construction of a new three storey teaching block and gymnasium with associated hard and soft landscaping”. Work has started on the teaching block, since my last visit showing the Image

Planning permission was granted by Dover District Council under application number DOV/15/01079 for the “refurbishment of original Portal House building alongside demolition of later extension and existing teaching buildings. Construction of a new three storey teaching block and gymnasium with associated hard and soft landscaping”. Work seems to have been completed on the teaching block and the original Portal House building, since my last visit showing the Image but the hoarding, across the entrance, suggests that there is still some construction work being carried out on the site.

Originally a pair of cottages, now combined into one, Curfew Cottage, in Sea Street was built in the early 18th century and extended in the 19th century. Constructed of flint with brick dressings under a tile roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1363349 St Margaret’s at Cliffe is a coastal village some 3 miles northeast of Dover. The village is the place in Britain that is nearest to the coast of France, 18 miles distant. The area has been settled since Anglo-Saxon times, and the village became a high class resort in the nineteenth century. The area has always been at the front line of cross Channel conflicts.

On Sea Street.

The newer buildings of Portal House School, a special needs establishment. See also Image St Margaret’s at Cliffe is a coastal village some 3 miles northeast of Dover. The village is the place in Britain that is nearest to the coast of France, 18 miles distant. The area has been settled since Anglo-Saxon times, and the village became a high class resort in the nineteenth century. The area has always been at the front line of cross Channel conflicts.

Once a care home - now closed.