Wappingthorn
WAPPINGTHORN, HORSHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180632
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Wappingthorn
- Statutory Address:
- WAPPINGTHORN, HORSHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180632
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Wappingthorn
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAPPINGTHORN, HORSHAM ROAD
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:
- WAPPINGTHORN, HORSHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Horsham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Steyning
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ1675813385
Details
STEYNING HORSHAM ROAD
1.
5404
Wappingthorn
TQ 11 SE 13/167 15.3.55
II
2.
Once an important house that later became a farmhouse and has again been altered
and greatly enlarged in modern times and is now a large L-shaped house of 12
windows of which only the west end of the east-west wing is old. This is dated
1609. Red brick. Stone stringcourse. Horsham slab roof. Casement windows
with stone mullions and transoms. Two storeys. Four windows. The easternmost
window bay and the next but one to it project slightly. The former has a huge
window rising the whole height of the 2 storeys and containing 4 tiers of 6 lights,
of which only 4 lights are glazed in the bottom, next to bottom and top tiers.
The latter has long and short stone quoins, sprocket eaves, a hipped roof, a
cartouche in the centre and a 4 light window on each floor, the upper window
having 2 tiers but only two of the lights in the lower tier are glazed. The
window bay between these projections has another huge window rising the whole
height of the 2 storeys containing 5 tiers of 6 lights, of which only 3 lights
in the second tier from the top and 2 in the fourth and bottom tiers are glazed.
The westernmost window bay has a window on each floor containing 2 tiers of 3
lights, the upper lights of the first floor window blocked. Buttress at the
angle of this window bay. The porch at the other end of the old part of the
house is modern, but it contains an original stone doorway with pilasters, carved
spandrels, keystone, enriched frieze and projecting cornice.
Listing NGR: TQ1675813385
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 298759
- 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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