BATTLE ABBEY SCHOOL

BATTLE ABBEY SCHOOL, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1044211
Date first listed:: 03-Aug-1961
List Entry Name:: BATTLE ABBEY SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: BATTLE ABBEY SCHOOL, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1044211
Date first listed:: 03-Aug-1961
List Entry Name:: BATTLE ABBEY SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: BATTLE ABBEY SCHOOL, HIGH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BATTLE ABBEY SCHOOL, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: East Sussex
District:: Rother (District Authority)
Parish:: Battle
National Grid Reference:: TQ 74901 15694

Details

TQ 7415-7515 BATTLE HIGH STREET (south west side) 41/1B 3.8.61 Battle Abbey School

GV I

The mansion was built by the Webster family in 1857. Architect Henry Clutton. But it incorporates part of the medieval buildings of the Abbey, ie the west wall of the cloisters and parts of the frater and of the Abbot's lodgings. These are C13-C14. Stone. They are visible at the east side of the building. On the ground floor are nine pointed arches in early Perpendicular style with tracery now filled in. These were the west wall of the cloisters. At the south end is another medieval portion which is taller than the rest of the building. The remainder dates from 1857. Three storeys and modern attic. Thirteen windows and four dormers in all. Stone rubble, part of the upper storeys rendered. Castellated parapet. Modern tiled roof. Casement windows. Two stepped gables above the cloister arches. The west front dates largely from the C19.

Listing NGR: TQ7490915704

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Legacy System number:: 292123
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.