WEST WOOD ST DUNSTAN

WEST WOOD ST DUNSTAN, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1027959
Date first listed:: 02-Apr-1990
List Entry Name:: WEST WOOD ST DUNSTAN
Statutory Address:: WEST WOOD ST DUNSTAN, WEST STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1027959
Date first listed:: 02-Apr-1990
List Entry Name:: WEST WOOD ST DUNSTAN
Statutory Address 1:: WEST WOOD ST DUNSTAN, WEST STREET

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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Location

Statutory Address:: WEST WOOD ST DUNSTAN, WEST STREET

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

County:: East Sussex
District:: Wealden (District Authority)
Parish:: Mayfield and Five Ashes
National Grid Reference:: TQ 58300 26762

Details

MAYFIELD WEST STREET TQ 5826 (south side) 40/961 West Wood St Dunstan - II

Large house. c.1902 by W H Romaine-Walker for himself. Coursed squared sandstone to ground floor; 1st floor pebbledashed above moulded timber bressummer; renewed tile roof; brick chimneys. U-shaped plan, open on south-east (garden) side, with side-outshut (service wing) on west side. 2 storeys, 5 bays with 1-bay side out- shut. In Arts and Crafts style having: Tudor-arched doorways with decorative spandrals and nail-studded board doors with cover strips; wooden mullioned windows, on ground floor with transoms, having leaded casements with decorative catches and some with reset stained or painted glass medallions (some with C17 dates); rafter ends visible at eaves; ribbed and corniced clustered chimney- stacks. Garden elevation: 1st floor jettied; gables have decorative open-work bargeboards and finials with pendants. Main range of 3 bays, has 4-light bay windows in angles with wings and 6-light central window; continuous window to 1st floor. Wings: left wing is taller and longer than right wing; each has a 4-light window to each floor of gable end; right wing has a door to its inner return, and the left wing a 4-light bay window, a door, and on 1st floor two 3-light windows set in gables, the gable on right with bird holes. On left of left wing is formerly open-fronted loggia, now glazed conservatory, with restored wooden frame- work supporting roof. A stack to ridge of main range and each wing. Rear (entrance) elevation: projecting jettied gabled left bay has a 3-light window to each floor. next 2 bays have fire-back projection with offset top, 1-light window with old glass to far right, and two 4-light flat-roofed dormers. Gabled bay 4 has 3-light 1st floor window but is largely masked by 2-storey gabled porch. Porch: upper part of ground floor originally open, now glazed, with turned balusters; 2-light window to gable; doorway to left return having decorative arch with pineapple pendant and grotesques; internal door flanked by side-lights. Bay 5 has 1-light window; and the brick outshut a round-arched doorway. Right return: flat-roofed 4-light bay window to left; 3-light window to right; on 1st floor, central 2-light window below gable. Left return (side outshut): of brick with various small-pane wooden casement windows and flat-roofed dormers; one curious dormer in tile-hung half-gable abutting tall chimney on left, and one in pebble- dashed gable near top of roof. Interior: good quality interior survives well, including: panelled doors and window reveals; fireplaces with tile or marble surrounds, architraves and metal grates; tiled bathrooms with original baths. Sitting room, in Jacobean style, has panelling with low-relief-decorated pilasters with lions' heads above and modillion cornice; running-pomegranite plaster frieze; decorative plaster ceiling with panels containing flora and fauna reliefs and pendants; stone fireplace with low-relief-decorative flanking pilasters and columns at front which support entablature. Jacobean-style wooden stair rises from sitting room and has balusters forming arched panels; relief-decorated finialed newels, and late-C18-style balustrade to lst-floor landing. In Dining Room, walls hung with original tapestry; bolection-moulded architraves; elaborate fireplace; and coved ceiling. In principal bedroom cupboards flanking fireplace have delicate metalwork fronts. This is a high quality Arts and Crafts house by a major society architect of the period. From 1956-86 it was the home of General Glubb (Glubb Pasha).

Listing NGR: TQ5830026762

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Legacy System number:: 297116
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.