Butlers Green House
BUTLERS GREEN HOUSE, BUTLER'S GREEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1192341
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Butlers Green House
- Statutory Address:
- BUTLERS GREEN HOUSE, BUTLER'S GREEN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1192341
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Butlers Green House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUTLERS GREEN HOUSE, BUTLER'S GREEN 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:
- BUTLERS GREEN HOUSE, BUTLER'S GREEN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Mid Sussex (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Haywards Heath
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 31958 23961
Details
TQ 32 SW HAYWARDS HEATH BUTLERS GREEN ROAD 4/106 Butlers Green House 10.9.51 (formerly listed in the Civil Parish of Cuckfield) GV II* Former manor house, now sub-divided into flats. Irregular plan of many different building periods. C16 vestiges (in east wing cellar), west wing of c1650, and east wing mainly of c1730. West wing of c1650 is of red brick with grey headers in Flemish bond. Tiled roof half-hipped to one side with off central brick chimney stack. 2 storeys, 5 windows, 3 bays. 5 sashes in moulded architraves with vertical only to 1st floor. 2 oculi, 1 blocked. Ground floor windows are casements with cambered heads. Central doorcase having cambered head with keystone, rusticated pilasters and gable masquerading as pediment. East wing of 1731 (on earlier foundations) is stuccoed with tiled roof. 3 storeys, 5 bays, square plan. Square casements to 2nd floor in moulded architraves, 1st floor cambered heads with verticals only. Originally the doorcase was in the centre of the south front but this is now a French window. Stone coping, quoins, band between ground and 1st floors, plinth. Mid C19 entrance in west side with cornice; brackets and side lights. Hipped roof set back and 2 large C19 chimney stacks. To the extreme west is an C18 service wing of 2 bays. Painted brickwork and tiled roof. 2 storeys and attics with modern dormer. Date plaque FW 1731 repositioned. Later splayed doorcase. To the left of this are C20 additions not of special interest to the rear are C18 brick stable additions of 1 storey. The interior of the west wing contains C17 door surrounds and superb early C17 panelling in 2 rooms from the demolished Slaugham Manor inserted in the late C19 with panels depicting mermaids and dragons and classical pilasters. Plain C18 staircase with turned balusters. The west wing has C16 brick cellars with 2 ovolo moulded windows, a 1731 grand staircase hall with rococo papier mache ceiling with central putto and swags, grapes and floral design, staircase with 3 twisted balusters to each tread and scrolled tread ends, dado panelling and round headed staircase window, a 1st floor reception room having a wide cornice with fasces and fireplaces and a ground floor room with a papier mache ceiling with French horns, sheafs and grapes and a further ground floor room with a papier mache ceiling with central pelican and doves and 2 male and 2 female Grecian heads in the corners. The house is named after the Boteler family who owned land locally for over 150 years from the late C14. In 1612 the house was purchased by John Warden who began the Warden/Sergison dynasty of Cuckfield Park.
Listing NGR: TQ3195823961
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303017
- 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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