Bailiffscourt Hotel and Country Club
BAILIFFSCOURT HOTEL AND COUNTRY CLUB, CLIMPING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1027676
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Bailiffscourt Hotel and Country Club
- Statutory Address:
- BAILIFFSCOURT HOTEL AND COUNTRY CLUB, CLIMPING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1027676
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Bailiffscourt Hotel and Country Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAILIFFSCOURT HOTEL AND COUNTRY CLUB, CLIMPING STREET
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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:
- BAILIFFSCOURT HOTEL AND COUNTRY CLUB, CLIMPING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Arun (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Climping
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 00160 00807
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/01/2013
TQ 00 SW
16/347
CLIMPING
CLIMPING STREET
Bailiffscourt Hotel and Country Club
GII*
Hotel and country club,formerly large country house.Built between 1931 and 1935 by Amyas Phillips an 'antiquarian' rather than architect for Lord and Lady Moyne.Built in late Medieval Cotswold style entirely out of salvaged materials from old buildings in many different parts of the country.Built of Somerset limestone with Horsham stone slate roof and stone chimneystacks.Quadrangular plan.Entrance front of two storeys with stone round-headed windows to first floor and ground floor double window with trefoliated head.Large buttresses and large external stone stack.Between these two is a two-light oak window rescued from a derelict building near Muchelney Abbey.The entrance archway was once part of Holditch Priory and the C15 oak door to the entrance hall originally belonged to South Wanborough Church.Left side return has double cusped windows to gable and a series of cambered windows and buttresses. Rear elevation is L shaped with two,three & four-light mullioned windows with leaded lights and four external chimneystacks.Arched door-case with four plank door.Right side contains domestic quarters.This is of chequerwork flint and stone with two gables and mullioned windows.Return has three-light mullioned windows and reused round-headed window.Room to right of entrance hall has deeply chamfered ceiling and tall window seat.Large L-shaped Dining Room has very fine roll-moulded ceiling and oak screen.Four centred arched stone fireplace in Dining Room was moved from a building in Hitchin being destroyed by the local authority.Principal bed chamber on first floor has crown post roof with four crownposts,two part of a salvaged roof and two replicas by Amyas Phillips.There are numerous other examples of reused stone four centred archways,C16 and C17 stone fireplaces and screens,though some screens are probably made up from old floorboards.This is the foremost example of the craze in the Inter War period of new houses made from old materials.(See Clive Aslet "The Last Country Homes"p172 -181.B.O.E. Sussex pp97-98).
Listing NGR: TQ0016000807
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 297834
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I, The Buildings of England: Sussex, (1965), 97-98
Aslet, C, The Last Country House, (1982), 172
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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