Priory House Hotel

PRIORY HOUSE HOTEL, 17, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1044216
Date first listed:
03-Aug-1961
List Entry Name:
Priory House Hotel
Statutory Address:
PRIORY HOUSE HOTEL, 17, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1044216
Date first listed:
03-Aug-1961
Date of most recent amendment:
13-May-1987
List Entry Name:
Priory House Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
PRIORY HOUSE HOTEL, 17, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PRIORY HOUSE HOTEL, 17, 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 74767 15910

Details

TQ 7415-7515 BATTLE HIGH STREET (south west side)

41/14 No 17 (Priory House Hotel) (formerly listed as 3.8.61 No 17 (Priory Guest House).

GV II*

Dated 1700. Three storeys and attic. Five windows. Three gabled dormers. Plastered front, ground floor rusticated. Cornice above ground floor. Modillion eaves cornice with egg and dart moulding below the modillions. Tiled roof. Windows in moulded architrave surrounds with glazing bars intact. The centre first floor window has a scrolled pediment over. Doorway with flat hood over on carved brackets, narrow rectangular fanlight and door of six fielded panels. Good staircase.

Listing NGR: TQ7476315910

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Legacy System number:
292136
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.

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