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Re: Unidentified country house
« Reply #63 on: Saturday 06 January 18 21:58 GMT (UK) »
It looks a lot like West Cliff Hotel, Hythe.  It's a big place and there have been changes over the years, but it's a pretty good match.  I can't find the exact same side/angle yet.

What do others think?

Here are a few to look at:
https://ebid.s3.amazonaws.com/upload_big/3/1/6/1368615852-16715-28.jpg

1955: https://www.francisfrith.com/hythe,hampshire/hythe-west-cliff-hall-hotel-c1955_h372049

Now, modernised and extended etc, it's now a care home complex:
 http://trigpointinguk-photos.s3.amazonaws.com/127/P127733.jpg

So they were on their holibobs .... taking just one set of photos, as you do with film etc.  You shoot as many photos as your materials allow you to from "one reel" or "one box of plates".

It might take a "local" to pop down and compare different angles to see if they can re-shoot the same side/angle/bit .. if not demolished.

And I found this:

"It is a large hotel which used to be on the coast but now overlooks drained Reclaimed Land.
The hotel is on a hill surrounded by woodland.At the bottom of the hill is a railway track used by goods trains serving the Fawley Oil Refinery further south on Southampton Water.  "
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-440000-108000/page/11

Which, I think, might nail it.
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Re: Unidentified country house
« Reply #64 on: Saturday 06 January 18 22:09 GMT (UK) »
Sorry, I don't think it's the same. On the original there are 5 window above the door between the "tower bits" on the hotel there are 7 and one of the "tower bits" would have had to be demolished.
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Re: Unidentified country house
« Reply #65 on: Saturday 06 January 18 22:14 GMT (UK) »
Sorry, I don't think it's the same. On the original there are 5 window above the door between the "tower bits" on the hotel there are 7 and one of the "tower bits" would have had to be demolished.
From the original I can see other wings .... that bit could either have been remodelled, or be a different wing.

The roof is also entirely different, but that could be because it's a different wing and/or been remodelled.

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Re: Unidentified country house
« Reply #66 on: Saturday 06 January 18 22:25 GMT (UK) »
We need to find out the history of West Cliff Hotel as that would help to confirm or eliminate.
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« Reply #67 on: Saturday 06 January 18 22:29 GMT (UK) »
Apparently it was originally built for a Colonel Vere Hobart. Postal address was West Cliff Hall, Dibden.
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Re: Unidentified country house
« Reply #68 on: Saturday 06 January 18 22:29 GMT (UK) »
Good evening,

Definately two different buildings. To get from the OPs photo to the hotel would have involved a complete demolition and rebuild job.

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« Reply #69 on: Saturday 06 January 18 22:31 GMT (UK) »
Good evening,

Definately two different buildings. To get from the OPs photo to the hotel would have involved a complete demolition and rebuild job.

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Re: Unidentified country house
« Reply #70 on: Saturday 06 January 18 22:33 GMT (UK) »
This is the railway, which doesn't look like the ramp in the OP's photo

https://www.francisfrith.com/hythe,hampshire/hythe-pier-and-train-c1960_h372076
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Re: Unidentified country house
« Reply #71 on: Saturday 06 January 18 23:18 GMT (UK) »
Just an observation after having a closer look at these pictures. 

The first house with the two bays/tower bits has a sort of drape effect over and part way down the sides of each window.  Looking at the wedding group photo in reply #13 the window to the right has the same thing, although the window glass is totally different.  I wonder if this could be another side or wing of that house.

Added.  Just noticed the glass in the window is plain, it's just the door and the windows to the left that are "leaded".
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