The Clock House
THE CLOCK HOUSE, MAZE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1043443
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Clock House
- Statutory Address:
- THE CLOCK HOUSE, MAZE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1043443
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Clock House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CLOCK HOUSE, MAZE HILL
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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:
- THE CLOCK HOUSE, MAZE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Hastings (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 79924 09053
Details
MAZE HILL 1. 5204 (West Side) St Leonards The Clock House TQ 7909 21/200B 19.1.51. II* 2. Designed by Decimus Burton or otherwise built by James Burton as part of his original layout of St Leonards in 1828. A very curious house in early Gothic revival style. Its main front faces the original subscription gardens, now St Leonards Gardens, and backs up against the hill. The entrance is on the east side, and the difference between the levels on the east and west sides is so great that the front door is actually on the 2nd floor. The ground plan consists of a centre portion of 3 storeys with a small projection in the centre and 2 flanking wings. But the latter are only 2 storeys high and are not visible from the east side. Seen from this entrance side the building is designed to give the appearance of a cruciform church wider than it is long with a small tower at the west end. It is built of sandstone ashlar. The east front of which only one storey is visible above ground, is surmounted by a parapet enriched with quatrefoil ornaments and with diagonally set buttresses at corners carried up to pinnacles with a plain parapet sloping up from these to the centre parapet. Dripstone and shield over the doorway. There are no windows in this front but the recessed transept portions have blocked pointed window spaces with dripstones over in their east walls. On the west front facing the garden there are 3 storeys with the tower forming a small projection in the centre. This has buttresses at its angles rising to tall pinnacles (only one of which remains) a 2-light pointed window on the ground floor, a shield and quatrefoil panel above this, then on the 2nd floor a 3-light pointed window with a panel above it of arcading containing 5 pointed arches and at the top a clock face in a diamond panel. The north and south faces of the tower are similar. On each side of the tower is a recessed portion of one window bay containing a 2-light pointed window on the ground and 2nd floors, and a square-headed casement window on the 1st floor, with a cornice over it. These window bays are flanked by buttresses carried up to pinnacles. Flanking these window bays are the "transept" portions not on this side further recessed but flush with the latter. They have no windows, a cornice above the 1st floor carried out to form a corbel bracket on each side, on which stands a statue in a niche with a pointed head and dripstone over; cornice and parapet above.
Listing NGR: TQ7992409053
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 294003
- 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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