Sedgwick Park

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TQ 12 NE
12/401

NUTHURST
Sedgwick Park

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Large house. Service wing possibly dates from 1608 much altered with possible incorporation of C18 house to east in the later additions built for the Henderson family in 1886 with Tower addition of 1904.

Exterior appearance almost entirely late C19 in Arts and Crafts style. Built of rubble and ashlar dressings. Horsham stone slab roof, stone chimneystacks. Roughly segmental in plan facing south to make maximum use of sunlight in principal rooms. Two storeys and attics with stone mullioned windows. North front has projecting gabled porch with pediment and Horsham stone slab fishscale tiles. First floor has four light mullioned window with crest and shield with motto "DEUS NOBISCUM QUIS CONTRA" (the arms of William Henry Abbey, High Sheriff of Sussex in 1935) Round-headed doorcase with keystone, studded door and fine bronze doorknocker with male mask spewing forth two cupids. To the west of this is a two storey canted bay with mullioned windows.

To the east of the porch is a tall hall window four tiers high and three lights across. Further east is a series of gables and dormer windows with modified Venetian windows. Narrow east front with external chimney stack and blocked in oculus. South or garden front has eight windows including three large projecting pedimented gables one with Venetian window, another with five light oriel and five dormers. Mullioned windows to first floor and mullioned and transomed windows to ground floor. Central recessed round headed arched doorcase. Attached to west end is a three storey square tower dated 1904 in matching materials with pyramidal roof with copper and wooden cupula with iron weathervane. Five light mullioned window to upper floor and three round-headed arches to ground floor with one storey garden room leading off to south.

Attached to west is service wing which probably incorporates an original building of 1608 though the appearance is late C19. Two storeys pebble dashed with hipped slate roof with five late C19 windows and five panelled fielded door to ground floor.

Attached to the east end of the building is a red brick garden wall in English bond brickwork which incorporates a five late C19 wrought iron gateway with open pediment fanlight and scrollwork.

Interior to east part of house has a staircase hall with very fine reused early C18 staircase with two scrolled balusters to each tread scrolled tread ends and C19 fluted column newel. Late C19 stone baronial style fireplace and panelling. South east ground floor room has late C19 panelling and carved wooden fireplace in C18 style. An adjoining room has late C19 panelling with fluted pilasters, a cornice of swags and cherubs over the fireplace and a cornice of vine leaves to the rest of the room. An adjoining room has a plaster ceiling with Tudor roses. The room behind the tower has C19 panelling and a marble fireplace with central frieze and cornice, Adam style figures and reeded pilasters. An ancient site with remains of a castle in the grounds. Under the Hendersons there was a celebrated garden (See 2 Country Life articles June 1942 by Christopher Hussey).

Listing NGR: TQ1837126687

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Sources

Books and journals
Country Life in June, (1942)

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