Gatehouse to Cuckfield Park Including Iron Railings

GATEHOUSE TO CUCKFIELD PARK INCLUDING IRON RAILINGS, BRIGHTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1025545
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1951
List Entry Name:
Gatehouse to Cuckfield Park Including Iron Railings
Statutory Address:
GATEHOUSE TO CUCKFIELD PARK INCLUDING IRON RAILINGS, BRIGHTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1025545
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1951
Date of most recent amendment:
11-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:
Gatehouse to Cuckfield Park Including Iron Railings
Statutory Address 1:
GATEHOUSE TO CUCKFIELD PARK INCLUDING IRON RAILINGS, BRIGHTON ROAD

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
GATEHOUSE TO CUCKFIELD PARK INCLUDING IRON RAILINGS, BRIGHTON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
West Sussex
District:
Mid Sussex (District Authority)
Parish:
Cuckfield
National Grid Reference:
TQ2981224400

Details

TQ 22 SE
3/7
10.9.51

CUCKFIELD
BRIGHTON ROAD
Gatehouse to Cuckfield Park including iron railings (formerlylisted as 'Gate House to Cuckfield Park)



II*

Former gatehouse. Later C16 railings early C19. Red brick in English bond with
stone dressings. Comprises central 2 storey entrance archway with room above,
flanked by four 3 storey octagonal turrets. 4 centred entrance, now with C19 cast
iron gate with dog rail. Above is a 3-light stone mullioned window with ogee
sections and hood-moulding. Eaves cornice. Turrets have fragments of stone finials.
Mainly loop windows but some circular windows. The South West turret has an ogee-
chaped leaden cupola with wooden finial and clock face towards house. Wooden winder
staircase window (South East turret). The gatehouse is now linked to 2 sections
of garden wall (items 3/6 and 3/8) by an early C19 low brick wall with iron
spear railings having urn principals and 2 sets of carriage gates.
(See Country Life, 15 March 1919, Pevsner Buildings of England p478 and Victoria
County History Vol VII p 151).

Listing NGR: TQ2981224400

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
302918
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Saltzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Sussex, (1940), 151
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I, The Buildings of England: Sussex, (1965), 478
Country Life in 15 March, (1919)

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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