The Bower House
THE BOWER HOUSE, 135, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1025448
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Bower House
- Statutory Address:
- THE BOWER HOUSE, 135, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1025448
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Bower House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BOWER HOUSE, 135, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE BOWER HOUSE, 135, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Mid Sussex (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lindfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 34849 25802
Details
TQ 3426 LINDFIELD HIGH STREET (west side) 6/177 No 135 (The Bower House) 10.9.51 GV II* House, formerly a Vicarage. C19 lettering under the eaves reads "Built about 1300, restored C16 and again in 1725" and there is also a square plaque dated AM 1725. Timber-framed open hall ceiled over a C16 refronted in C19 on east elevation with red brick and grey headers in diaper pattern on ground floor on brick plinth, and alternate bands of plain, pointed and curved tiles to 1st floor. Half-hipped tiled roof. 2 storeys and attics; 4 windows, 2 gabled dormers with carved bargeboards and finials. 4 C19 casements with iron pintle hinges. Wide eaves cornice. The north elevation has exposed square framing, jowled posts and some curved bracing, also a C20 doorcase with flat hood on console brackets. The south elevation has a half-hipped gable, brick ground floor and tiled 1st floor with some bands of curved tiles. The west elevation has 2 projecting wings of reused timbers and original multiple external stack to centre. The interior contains most unusual late C14 post and panel panelling, the posts reduced to thin strips and then exposed to form cusping at the heads, arched doorhead with durns inserted ceilings on ground and 1st floors with lambs tongue stop spine beams and joists and an early crown post, square in section with quadripartite bracing. Frame exposed with jowled posts and down bracing. Very wide floorboards. (See Mason "Framed Buildings of the Weald" p 84. The medieval door is illustrated in Mason Plate XIX and the panelling in Plate XXIII).
Listing NGR: TQ3484925802
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303088
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mason, R T, Framed Buildings of the Weald, (1964), 84
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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