Country United Kingdom Town or city Sandgate | Designations Grade II listed Designation Listed building | |
Similar Port Lympne Mansion, Coronation Chair, Trent Park, Romney Marsh | ||
Shorncliffe Lodge, The Undercliff, Sandgate, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 3AT, was a well appointed weekend house that belonged to Edward Albert Sassoon and Aline Caroline de Rothschild. It was sold by Philip Sassoon to fund the purchase of land on which he built Port Lympne Mansion.
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Map of Shorncliffe Lodge, Undercliff, Sandgate, Folkestone CT20 3AT, UK
The property was purchased after Edward Sassoon's successful election in a by-election at Hythe, Kent, a constituency that had been represented by Meyer de Rothschild from 1859 to 1874. The area had strong Rothschild connections. Edward's in laws had owned property there since early in the nineteenth century, using it as a staging point for couriers and carrier pigeons for their communication system with the Continent.
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Shorncliffe is a Grade II Listed Building. Date listed: 17 April 1974, English Heritage Building ID: 175442, OS Grid REference: TR2025635290, OS Grid Coordinates: 620256, 135290, Latitude/ Longitude: 51.0746, 1.1428