Tara House

28, CHURCH SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1044293
Date first listed:
12-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:
Tara House
Statutory Address:
28, CHURCH SQUARE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1044293
Date first listed:
12-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:
Tara House
Statutory Address 1:
28, CHURCH SQUARE
Statutory Address 2:
TARA HOUSE, 30, CHURCH SQUARE

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:
28, CHURCH SQUARE
Statutory Address:
TARA HOUSE, 30, CHURCH SQUARE

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

County:
East Sussex
District:
Rother (District Authority)
Parish:
Rye
National Grid Reference:
TQ 92160 20252

Details

1. 1578 CHURCH SQUARE (South Side)

No 28 No 30 (Tara House) TQ 9220 1/12 12.10.51.

II GV

2. A repaired, timber-framed house with the upper storey slightly overhanging on 2 brackets. C16 or earlier. 2 storeys and attic. 2 windows, 1 dormer. Heavy post at the west end of the ground floor with mortices for shutters to the ground floor windows. Some timbers renewed, No 30 is the back part of the house and is entered by a passage between Nos 28 and 32.

Nos 20 to 46 (even) and No 33 form a group with Nos 27 to 30 (consec) Watchbell Street.

Listing NGR: TQ9215920250

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
291917
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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