The Ancient Priors (Minters Restaurant A Louis Coiffeur)
THE ANCIENT PRIORS (MINTERS RESTAURANT A LOUIS COIFFEUR), 49 AND 51, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1207420
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1948
- List Entry Name:
- The Ancient Priors (Minters Restaurant A Louis Coiffeur)
- Statutory Address:
- THE ANCIENT PRIORS (MINTERS RESTAURANT A LOUIS COIFFEUR), 49 AND 51, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1207420
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1948
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Feb-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Ancient Priors (Minters Restaurant A Louis Coiffeur)
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ANCIENT PRIORS (MINTERS RESTAURANT A LOUIS COIFFEUR), 49 AND 51, HIGH STREET
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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.
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:
- THE ANCIENT PRIORS (MINTERS RESTAURANT A LOUIS COIFFEUR), 49 AND 51, HIGH STREET
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 26788 36580
Details
HIGH STREET 1. 5403 (east side) No 49 and No 51 The Ancient Priors (Minters Restaurant A Louis Coiffeur) (formerly listed as No 47, The Square) TQ 2636 NE 5/24 21.6.48 II* GV 2. Timber-framed hall-house of circa 1450 with L-wing added circa 1530 and modern brick wing later. Restored in 1927. Two storeys timber-framed with Horsham slab roof. Four bays. Front elevation has projecting first floors on brackets with gables above with decorative curved braces. Front elevation mainly close-studded. Side elevation square framing. Modern casement windows but blocked original window openings remain. Later shopfronts. Doorcase has a flat arch with shield in spandrels. On one of these is a crown of antique shape, 2 fleur de lys seen sideways, a third in the middle and a leaf between. The hall runs north to south with a solar and chamber beneath it either end. The hall is 23ft long of 2 bays, each about 10ft long. Open timber roof with cambered tie beam, arch-braced collar beam, moulded wall plates and curved mid-braces. A chimney and floor were inserted in the C16. Two C16 stone fireplaces in the ground and first floor rooms at the north end. A 2-storey wing, probably a kitchen wing of about 1530 projects eastward from the south end. Two staircases, are hung a heavy Jacobean rail with turned balusters. A complete and well-preserved example of a C15 hall-house. This may have been the Pre-Reformation Priest's house. Reputed connexions with smuggling. (See V C H Sussex vii 144. Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol LV (1912) pp 12-16).
Listing NGR: TQ2678836580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 363347
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Saltzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Sussex, (1940)
Sussex Archaeological Collections in Sussex Archaeological Collections, Vol. 55, (1912), 12-16
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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