Sands
SANDS, THREE STILE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1181536
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Sands
- Statutory Address:
- SANDS, THREE STILE ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-07-20
- Reference:
- IOE01/02377/04
- Rights:
- © Mrs Margaret Dales. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1181536
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Sands
- Statutory Address 1:
- SANDS, THREE STILE 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:
- SANDS, THREE STILE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Horsham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Warnham
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 15182 34447
Details
In the entry for;
TQ 13 sE WARNHAM THREE STILE ROAD (off)
7/186 Sands Farmhouse
22.9.59 II
The entry shall be amended to read;
TQ 13 SE WARNHAM THREE STILE ROAD
7/186 Sands
22.9.59 II* (star)
House. C15 Wealden hall-house built probably between 1450 and 1485 with open hall ceiled over and chimney inserted in mid C16 when a porch was added to the original rear reversing the aspect, refenestrated in C20. Timber-framed building with close studding with plaster infill and south part underbuilt in brick. C16 porch is box framed with brick infill, mostly painted. Hipped Horsham slab roof with gablets. Central clustered brick chimneystack and end brick chimneystacks. 2 storeys 4 windows. Mainly C20 casements. Front has wings with projecting first floors and recessed centre with brackets. Left side elevation is close studded and retains the frame of the garderobe and the tenon of the bracket to support the gart robe. Rear elevation retains the original window frame to the hall window. Projecting 2 storey porch with moulded beam above original porch door. Internal plan has former open hall of 2 unequal bays, a single jettied bay at the upper end of the hall and 2 bays jettied over the lower or service end. Interior retains original C15 post and panel screen with remains of moulding to spere screen and arched entrance with spandrels to chamber crenellated and roll moulded dais beam. Arched buttery and pantry doors. The original doorway to the stairs remains. Inserted C16 ceiling with chamfered spine beam and lambs tongue stops and similar floor joists. Original Horsham stone floor.Roof has 3 crown posts (1 was removed when the C16 chimney was inserted) sooted pargeting on the hall side of the solar/hall division and unsooted plaster between the crown post and principal rafter on the west side above the original solar. [See 'The Older Houses of Warnham' by Rodney Dales. P16. Also illustrated on front cover of 'Wealden Buildings'. Editor, John Warren M.Litd, FSA].
WARNHAM THREE STILE ROAD (off) 1. 5404 Sands Farmhouse
TQ 13 SE 7/186 22.9.59.
II
2. C15 timber-framed hall house of Wealden type. Consists of centre and projecting group, their first floor oversailing on brackets. Ground floor of the south wing rebuilt in brick. First floor of the south wing has brick infilling. Remainder close-studded with plaster infilling. Curved braces supporting eaves of the centre. Horsham slab roof. Casement windows. Two storeys. Three windows.
Listing NGR: TQ1518234447
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 299666
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wealden Buildings studies in the timber framed tradition of building in Kent Sussex and Surrey in tribute to RT Mason, (1990)
Dales, R, The Older Houses of Warnham, (), 16
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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