St Michael's Cottage the Old Rectory

ST MICHAEL'S COTTAGE, CHURCH HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1197489
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1976
List Entry Name:
St Michael's Cottage the Old Rectory
Statutory Address:
ST MICHAEL'S COTTAGE, CHURCH HILL
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1197489
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1976
Date of most recent amendment:
10-Feb-1993
List Entry Name:
St Michael's Cottage the Old Rectory
Statutory Address 1:
ST MICHAEL'S COTTAGE, CHURCH HILL
Statutory Address 2:
THE OLD RECTORY, CHURCH HILL

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ST MICHAEL'S COTTAGE, CHURCH HILL
Statutory Address:
THE OLD RECTORY, CHURCH HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
East Sussex
District:
Lewes (District Authority)
Parish:
Newhaven
National Grid Reference:
TQ 44209 01082

Details

NEWHAVEN

TQ4401SW CHURCH HILL 769-1/7/9 (East side) 04/03/76 The Old Rectory and St Michael's Cottage (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH HILL, Newhaven The Old Rectory)

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Rectory, now 2 dwellings. Circa 1800, possibly earlier. Stucco, rendered plinth, tile-hung south-east front, painted brick to north-west, painted unknapped flint to service wing (St Michael's Cottage), tiled roof to main elevation behind parapet, coped verges and tall rendered gable endstacks on facade. Plan: parallel range with projecting bay to north-west, sevice wing to rear. Two storeys, 2 bays; 9-light sash windows with raised surrounds flanking central flat roofed wooden pilasters porch with segmental-head opening, half-glazed door. Right return: curved brick bay with one window to each floor, first floor 16-pane sash window, ground floor 20-pane sash window reaching to ground level. Interior not seen. The slightly irregular placing of the windows on the facade may indicate that an earlier building has been refaced.

Listing NGR: TQ4420901082

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
374199
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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