Leasam House School
LEASAM HOUSE SCHOOL, LEASAM LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217594
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Leasam House School
- Statutory Address:
- LEASAM HOUSE SCHOOL, LEASAM LANE
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- Date:
- 2002-02-16
- Reference:
- IOE01/06284/02
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217594
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Leasam House School
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEASAM HOUSE SCHOOL, LEASAM LANE
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:
- LEASAM HOUSE SCHOOL, LEASAM LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Rother (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rye Foreign
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ9098021419
Details
In the entry for
16/1
3.8.61
RYE DOREIGN
LEASAM LANE
Leasam House School
(formerly listed as Leasam House, Playden)
I
The grade shall be amended to read as II.
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TQ 92 SW
16/1
3.8.61
RYE FOREIGN
LEASAM LANE
Leasam House School
(Formerly listed as Leasam House, Playden)
I
Fine mansion built by Jeremiah Curteis between 1798 and 1806. The main front
faces South. Three storeys. Seven windows. Red brick with painted quoins
and stringcourse above the first floor. Balustraded parapet with panels
of red brick. The 3 centre window bays project slightly with similar quoins
edging them and a modillion pediment in the second floor containing a lunette
window. Terracotta swags between the first floor windows. Ionic hexastyle
portico on the ground floor with balustraded parapet over. Doorway with
rectangular fanlight. Keystones over ground floor windows. Glazing bars
intact. The North or entrance front has a doorway with engaged columns,
a curved pediment, enriched frieze, semi-circular fanlight and door of 6
fielded panels. The East front has three windows, the outer ones being tri-
partite, those on the second floor being tripartite lunette windows. Later
service wing added to the North West.
Listing NGR: TQ9098021419
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412751
- 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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