Guppy's Tewcot Wychwood Cottage
GUPPY'S, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1027972
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Guppy's Tewcot Wychwood Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- GUPPY'S, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1027972
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Guppy's Tewcot Wychwood Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUPPY'S, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- TEWCOT, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- WYCHWOOD COTTAGE, WEST STREET
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:
- GUPPY'S, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address:
- TEWCOT, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WYCHWOOD COTTAGE, 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 58441 26855
Details
MAYFIELD WEST STREET 1. 5208 (South-East Side) Guppy's, Wychwood Cottage and Tewcot TQ 5826 40/960 II G.V. 2. House, now three cottages. Later C19 or early C20 refacing of C16 to early C17 timber framed house, with probably slightly later outshut. Chequer brickwork to ground floors, tile-hung first floor to Wychwood, and weatherboarded first floor to Tewcot and Guppy's; plain tile hipped roof with red brick centre stack from rear pitch; catslide roof at rear, built up in Guppy's. Two storeys. From South, one, two and one windows; transomed late C19 three-light ground floor windows and first floor sash windows, mainly without glazing bars. Tewcot has to left hand old wooden boarded door with cover strips; Wychwood has right hand six panel door; Guppy's has modern porch to left hand. Single storey S.W. side extension to Tewcot, with plain tile roof with crest tiles; formerly a cobblers shop. Interior: substantial framework of a C16 or early C17 timber framed house visible in all three cottages e.g. posts, with long three foot jowls, descending to ground floor, in rear wall in Guppy's, and in both front and rear walls in Tewcot; walls of square panels of timber framing with straight braces in each cottage on the line of the rear wall of the original house visible in each cottage; timber framed internal partition walls; stopped and, chamfered ceiling beams; large inglenook fire place in Wychwood, its stone chimney breast projecting with Guppy's. Old ledged door in Tewcot.
Listing NGR: TQ5844126855
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 297039
- 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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