The Bill House
THE BILL HOUSE, GRAFTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1026265
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Bill House
- Statutory Address:
- THE BILL HOUSE, GRAFTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1026265
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Bill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BILL HOUSE, GRAFTON 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:
- THE BILL HOUSE, GRAFTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Chichester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Selsey
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 85567 92220
Details
SELSEY GRAFTON ROAD SZ 89 SE 23/7 The Bill House - - II
House. 1907 by M H Baillie Scott in an Arts and Crafts vernacular revival style L-plan with service wing to north and main wing to south. Pebble-dashed and painted with exposed stone dressings, some stone and flint chequer work and exposed timber-framing to tower gallery. Graded slate roofs. ENTRANCE FRONT 1 1/2 2 storeys with projecting wings to left and right and in centre, with the roof sweeping down between to form buttresses catslide and further projecting half- hipped wing to extreme right. Diamond stone and flint chequer in central gable. Various mullion and mullion and transom stone windows with iron casements. Central low round-arched doorway with recessed boarded and ribbed door. SEA FRONT: 1 storey and attic. Almost symmetrical with low gabled cross-wing projections towards each end of block, that to left glazed with mullion and transom multi-light window flanked by similar window to right and that to right with 5-light mullion window on ground floor and 3-light window in gable above. Triple arched centre glazed with French casements, and brick and flint chequer above with four-light window to right. SERVICE WING COURT SIDE. Central yard entrance with two 2-light mullion windows to right and various one and two-light windows to left with pair of cart-doors and smaller door beyond. Tower to left with timber-framed gallery arch on brackets and pyramidal bellcast roof with weathervane. EXTERIOR SIDE. Gable to left projecting the east end of the main block. Central flat-headed dormer with 2 semi-dormers to left and gabled dormer to right. Deep catslide to right of courtyard entrance. INTERIOR: Chalk- vaulted loggia with groin-vaults. Framing displayed at end of living-hall, which also contains very large tiled inglenook with wood surround to opening. Some Arts and Crafts style plasterwork of leaves and grapes survives.
Listing NGR: SZ8556792220
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 301066
- 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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