The Manor House the Towner Art Gallery
THE MANOR HOUSE, 9 AND 11, BOROUGH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1043667
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1949
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House the Towner Art Gallery
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, 9 AND 11, BOROUGH LANE
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- Date:
- 1999-08-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/01435/12
- Rights:
- © Mr Michael Nash. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1043667
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1949
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House the Towner Art Gallery
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, 9 AND 11, BOROUGH LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE TOWNER ART GALLERY, 9 AND 11, BOROUGH LANE
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:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, 9 AND 11, BOROUGH LANE
- Statutory Address:
- THE TOWNER ART GALLERY, 9 AND 11, BOROUGH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Eastbourne (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TV 59946 99406
Details
BOROUGH LANE, OLD TOWN 1. 1065 Nos 9 & 11 (The Manor House, now The Towner Art Gallery) TV 5999 SE 4/22 27.5.49.
II
2. Built in 1743, 2 storeys and attic, 7 windows, 3 dormers. Grey headers with red brick dressings. Stringcourse of red brick and grey headers. Wooden cornice with modillions. Hipped slate roof with lead ridges. Doorway with Doric columns and pediment set in the thickness of the garden wall and no doubt originally a porch but this now leads into the passage connecting the house with the billiard room. The main front faces the garden on the South. It has a large bay of 3 windows on the 1st floor supported by Doric columns below, behind which is the ground floor doorway with Doric pilasters and pediment. The door is modern. Above the cornice of the bay is a wooden-balustraded parapet and large dormer window with brick work on either side of it and pediment over. 1 ordinary dormer on either side of it. The East front has 3 bays of 3 windows each, 1 fronted with red brick, the others re- fronted with roughcast. The wing to the North has a 1st floor which is largely modern but the ground floor is earlier than the main part of the house. A billiard room of ground floor level onlywas added at the South- west corner of the house at the end of the C19 and has been joined to the main part of the house by a corridor with a balustraded roof.
Listing NGR: TV5994699406
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 293538
- 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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