Telegraph House
TELEGRAPH HOUSE, CHICHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1026025
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Telegraph House
- Statutory Address:
- TELEGRAPH HOUSE, CHICHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1026025
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Telegraph House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TELEGRAPH HOUSE, CHICHESTER ROAD
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:
- TELEGRAPH HOUSE, CHICHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Chichester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elsted and Treyford
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 80990 17436
Details
SU 81 NW ELSTED CHICHESTER ROAD 16/21 Telegraph House II L-shaped building. Stuccoed. Eaves bracket cornice. Slate roof. Casement windows. Tower of four storeys and one window in the south east angle. Round window on second floor. Pyramidal slate roof with ball cap. The south front has a round headed doorway with pilasters and projecting cornice. The west end of this front projects and consists of only one storey and attic with four windows and two dormers. The rest of the front has two storeys and attic, four windows and two dormers. Four windows facing east. There was a semaphore station on this site from the earliest period of such communications. The present house was built in connection with this in the Mid C19. From 1927-37 it was the home of the famous Beacon Hill School run by Bertrand Russell, later Lord Russell, and Dora Black. It is listed for historical reasons.
Listing NGR: SU8099017436
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 301710
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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