Penn Cottage Penns House
PENN COTTAGE, HORSHAM ROAD
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180658
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Penn Cottage Penns House
- Statutory Address:
- PENN COTTAGE, HORSHAM ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180658
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Penn Cottage Penns House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PENN COTTAGE, HORSHAM ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- PENNS HOUSE, 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:
- PENN COTTAGE, HORSHAM ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- PENNS HOUSE, 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:
- TQ 17391 11577
Details
STEYNING HORSHAM ROAD 1. 5404 Penn's House and Penn Cottage TQ 1711 24/152
II
2. Originally a dwelling of timber-framed construction and C17 or earlier date. Converted into a Quaker Meeting House in 1678 and used by William Penn, the Founder of the Society of Friends, who lived at Warminghurst, not far away. Made into a dwelling again in the C19 or since. Not two dwellings. One storey and attic. Three windows. Two gabled dormers. Now faced with stone rubble, red brick and tile-hanging. Tiled roof. Casement windows. Stone inscribed "Quaker Meeting House 1678".
Listing NGR: TQ1739111577
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 298764
- 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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