Old Hastings House
OLD HASTINGS HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1043462
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- Statutory Address:
- OLD HASTINGS HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1043462
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD HASTINGS HOUSE, HIGH STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- OLD HASTINGS HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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 82746 09970
Details
HIGH STREET 1. 5204 (North West Side) Old Hastings House TQ 8209 NE 8/57 19.1.51. II* GV 2. Early-mid C18 mansion. Front brick with chamfered stone quoins. Parapet with stone coping. Slate and tiled hipped roofs. 3 storeys. 7 closely spaced windows with flat brick arches, all sashes without glazing bars. Central porch with Tuscan columns supporting entablature, glazed door and rectangular fanlight. Set back on right carriageways above rendered, one sash window, tile roof with gable end. Wing at rear facing south-west, 3 tall 1st floor sashes with ornate iron balcony and canopy. Attached to south corner is late C19 square conservatory with splayed angles, pyramidal roof with ogee-domed lantern. Interior: entrance hall with bolection- moulded panelling, rooms with wooden cornices, good contemporary staircase. On outside are tablets to General Murray, Jurat of Hastings who was with General Wolfe at Quebec, and to Coventry Patmore, poet, who lived here from 1873-1891. John Collier (1685-1660) mayor of Hastings also lived here. Formerly known as The Mansion, renamed Old Hastings House 1892.
Old Hastings House and its garden walls and gates forms a group with Torfield House.
Listing NGR: TQ8274609970
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 293954
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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