Chapman Headstone, 3 Yards North of Church of St Dunstan
CHAPMAN HEADSTONE, 3 YARDS NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST DUNSTAN, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1027976
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Chapman Headstone, 3 Yards North of Church of St Dunstan
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPMAN HEADSTONE, 3 YARDS NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST DUNSTAN, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1027976
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Chapman Headstone, 3 Yards North of Church of St Dunstan
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPMAN HEADSTONE, 3 YARDS NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST DUNSTAN, HIGH 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:
- CHAPMAN HEADSTONE, 3 YARDS NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST DUNSTAN, HIGH 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 58629 27040
Details
Barn, later converted into a house. C16, extended in C17 to the south west and converted to a house in late C20.
MATERIALS: Timber-framed, clad in weatherboarding on brick plinth, the north western part of the outshot of stone rubble, with plain tiled roof, hipped with gablet to north and half-hipped to south, and with deep catslide to west.
PLAN: Five bays, the northern three bays earliest, the southern two bays with separately framed roof and full length outshot to west.
EXTERIOR: Wagon doors to east now glazed-in with smaller late C20 wooden arched doorcase inserted in the centre and lower wagon doors to west replaced by French windows. The wall frame has had a number of wooden casements inserted. The western roof slope has had four Velux rooflights inserted, a cylindrical metal chimney flue inserted to the north west and a soil vent to the bathroom to the north east.
INTERIOR: The wall frame and roof survive substantially intact with jowled upright posts and curved windbraces to the wall frame and queenpost roof structure. The northern part has two tiers of purlins, the upper ones supported by windbraces, the southern bays have staggered purlins and central angled queenstrut. There is a late C20 inserted ceiling and plastered partitions using reused timbers, a herringbone brick partition, a brick chimney and an inserted staircase of solid oak treads with diagonally placed balusters inserted into the cart bay.
HISTORY: Originally this was a barn to Downlands Farm and was at some stage in the ownership of the Preston estate. It was converted into a house in the late C20.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: A timber-framed barn of five bays of C16 and C17 date. Although converted into a house in the late C20 the timber frame remains substantially intact; for this good survival of pre-1700 fabric, the house has special architectural interest at Grade II.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 297046
- 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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