Old Hastings House
OLD HASTINGS HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1043462
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Old Hastings House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD HASTINGS HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1043462
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Old Hastings House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD HASTINGS HOUSE, 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:
- 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
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 293954
- 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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