Wall on the East Side of Church Hill, Returned Along Meeching Rise
WALL ON THE EAST SIDE OF CHURCH HILL, RETURNED ALONG MEECHING RISE, CHURCH HILL, BN9 9L
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206282
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Wall on the East Side of Church Hill, Returned Along Meeching Rise
- Statutory Address:
- WALL ON THE EAST SIDE OF CHURCH HILL, RETURNED ALONG MEECHING RISE, CHURCH HILL, BN9 9L
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206282
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Wall on the East Side of Church Hill, Returned Along Meeching Rise
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALL ON THE EAST SIDE OF CHURCH HILL, RETURNED ALONG MEECHING RISE, CHURCH HILL, BN9 9L
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:
- WALL ON THE EAST SIDE OF CHURCH HILL, RETURNED ALONG MEECHING RISE, CHURCH HILL, BN9 9L
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 44283 01179
Details
TQ 4401 SW,
769-1/7/10
NEWHAVEN,
CHURCH HILL (East side),
Wall on the East side of Church Hill, returned along Meeching Rise
G.V.
II
Wall. C18 and C19, repaired C20. Unknapped flint, some brick
quoins and coping, repairs in brick and cement. Wall to Church
Hill about 2m high, attached cast-iron plaque,
figure-of-eight-shape, inscribed in raised lettering
'FP/ft/14'; raking buttress at northern end, stepped brick
coping and cement plinth to left of entrance to Meeching House
(not included) with late C20 brick piers and depressed brick
arch; wall continued right with 20cm high curved brick
buttresses to plinth, and returned to Meeching Rise. Here the
wall is buttresses and pierced by openings to Moonrakers (not
included) and Applegarth (not included), thereafter with tile
offsets and hump-backed cement and pebble coping. There is an
unidentified blocked-up opening in the wall where it
terminates opposite the entrance to the Church of St Michael
and All Angels (qv). This was part of the boundary wall of the
C16 Meeching Place estate which was given to the Convent of St
Mary in 1895; (the house was demolished and the convent has
since removed elsewhere). Included for group value.
Listing NGR: TQ4428301179
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 374200
- 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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