Rectory Cottage and Rosemullion Cottage

RECTORY COTTAGE, PETT ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1217589
Date first listed:
13-May-1987
List Entry Name:
Rectory Cottage and Rosemullion Cottage
Statutory Address:
RECTORY COTTAGE, PETT ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1217589
Date first listed:
13-May-1987
List Entry Name:
Rectory Cottage and Rosemullion Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
RECTORY COTTAGE, PETT ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
ROSEMULLION COTTAGE, PETT ROAD

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
RECTORY COTTAGE, PETT ROAD
Statutory Address:
ROSEMULLION COTTAGE, PETT ROAD

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

County:
East Sussex
District:
Rother (District Authority)
Parish:
Pett
National Grid Reference:
TQ8753914014

Details

TQ 81 SE PETT PETT ROAD
(north side)

32/48 Rectory Cottage and
Rosemullion Cottage

II

Pair of semi-detached cottages converted from a terrace of three cottages. First
cottage built between 1730 and 1760 with later C18 alterations and addition to
east to create three cottages now two C19 alterations. Timber frame brick, C19
render, plain tile roof. Two flush gable end rendered brick stacks, one brick
ridge stack. Two storeys. The external timber framed walls of the first cottage
rebuilt in brick but the stud and braced cross partition between its two bay
hall and service bay, the upper part of the wall separating the rear lean-to
and the upper part of the east gable remain. The central cottage, formed in
the service bay with entry from the rear, is now divided and incorporated in
the present pair of cottages. Three window front: on the ground floor the windows
alternate with two entrance doorways, all with segmental arched heads. Two C19
projecting gabled porches. Three-light casements with glazing bars to both floors.
Interior: Rectory Cottage retains mid C18 inglenook fireplace with timber lintel
and chamfered bridging beam with moulded cyma stops. Later C18 inglenook fireplaces
in centre and against east gable wall (Rosemullion Cottage) Roof has paired rafters
with necked collars. Rape of Hastings Architectural Survey: Report No 709.


Listing NGR: TQ8753914014

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
412736
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
The Rape of Hastings Architectural Survey, (1986)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Rectory Cottage and Rosemullion Cottage

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