Stable Block at Ditton Place
STABLE BLOCK AT DITTON PLACE, BRANTRIDGE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096144
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Stable Block at Ditton Place
- Statutory Address:
- STABLE BLOCK AT DITTON PLACE, BRANTRIDGE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096144
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Stable Block at Ditton Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- STABLE BLOCK AT DITTON PLACE, BRANTRIDGE 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:
- STABLE BLOCK AT DITTON PLACE, BRANTRIDGE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Mid Sussex (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ansty and Staplefield
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 28464 29800
Details
BALCOMBE
1144/0/10066 BRANTRIDGE LANE
04-FEB-03 Stable block at Ditton Place
GV II
Stables and coachhouse, later school workshops. Built in 1904, architects Cecil Brewer and Dunbar Smith, in Neo William and Mary style for A B Horne, the owner of Prudential Insurance. Some later C20 alterations. Red brick with stone dressings and tiled roof with two brick chimneystacks. Building of one storey and attics arranged around three sides of a courtyard.
EXTERIOR: West front is architecturally the most impressive as it was designed to be seen from the garden side of the main house. It has a series of eight oculi, each with four keystones, moulded stone cornice and hipped roof. This has six cambered dormers and a central square wooden cupola with clockface, hipped roof and elaborate metal weathervane. The east front has four dormers and five wooden piers on padstones, formerly open but glazed-in in the late C20. The wings are aloso of one storey brick with tops of the projecting gables weatherboarded with round-headed windows and pivoting casements. The gables have wooden hoists. Wooden staircase have been erected in front. The roofs have central wooden louvres on battered lead bases. The left side wing has three casement windows and double doors. The right side retains a set of double doors and C20 infill. The two projecting wings are joined by brick walls with stone coping, two gatepiers with stone ball finials, curbing stones and cast iron overthrow . The stables are joined to the main house by a round-headed brick arch.
["Country Life" 1st July 1911 in "Country Gardens Old and New."
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490110
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 1 July, (1911)
Country Life in 1 July, (1911)
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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