Turks Croft
TURKS CROFT, RUSPER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187107
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Turks Croft
- Statutory Address:
- TURKS CROFT, RUSPER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187107
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Turks Croft
- Statutory Address 1:
- TURKS CROFT, RUSPER 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:
- TURKS CROFT, RUSPER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Crawley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 24725 36759
Details
RUSPER ROAD 1. 5403 Ifield Turks Croft TQ 23 NW 2/71 11.2.60 II 2. A late C15 timber framed 3 bay house with additions of the mid C16 and Cl7. Two storeys. Red brick on the ground floor and tile hung above but some exposed timbering. Half-hipped tiled roof. Four casement windows. In the late C15 the central bay of the house was an open hall with a crown post roof. The rafters over the hall are smoke blackened. In the mid C16 2 bays were added to the north end. At this time the hall was floored over and a smoke bay made in the middle of the 5 bays. The plaster face in the roof is soot-blackened. Tension braces are present in all the internal trusses. The chimney which serves rooms on both sides was probably added in the second half of the C17.
Listing NGR: TQ2472536759
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 363393
- 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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