Leper's Cottage

Leper's Cottage, 1, Westhampnett Road

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1026583
Date first listed:: 05-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:: Leper's Cottage
Statutory Address:: Leper's Cottage, 1, Westhampnett Road

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1026583
Date first listed:: 05-Jul-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Oct-1971
List Entry Name:: Leper's Cottage
Statutory Address 1:: Leper's Cottage, 1, Westhampnett Road

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

Location

Statutory Address:: Leper's Cottage, 1, Westhampnett Road

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

County:: West Sussex
District:: Chichester (District Authority)
Parish:: Chichester
National Grid Reference:: SU8710905354

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 9 August 2022 to amend the description and to reformat the text to current standards

SU 8705 14/363

WESTHAMPNETT ROAD No 1 (Leper's Cottage) (Formerly listed as No 85 (Leper's Cottage) St Pancras)

5.7.50. II Late C18 cottage built on the site of St James' Hospital for people affected by leprosy (founded in the reign of Henry I) destroyed by fire in 1781. The north wall incorporates part of the old structure. Plastered front. Thatched roof. Small casement windows with pointed segmental heads and Gothic divisions. A tablet on the cottage records its history.

Listing NGR: SU8710905354

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

Legacy System number:: 300301
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.