Black Fox Cottage
BLACK FOX COTTAGE, PRINSTEAD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221939
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Black Fox Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BLACK FOX COTTAGE, PRINSTEAD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221939
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Black Fox Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLACK FOX COTTAGE, PRINSTEAD 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:
- BLACK FOX COTTAGE, PRINSTEAD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Chichester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Southbourne
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 76644 05487
Details
SU 7605 SOUTHBOURNE PRINSTED LANE
27/10009 Black Fox Cottage
II
House. Circa mid C18, refenestrated and extended at rear in circa early C19; altered in mid C20. Rendered brick. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends and brick dentil eaves course; hipped roofs at rear. Rendered gable-end stacks. PLAN: Originally a 2-room plan house, each room heated from gable-end fireplace and with central entrance; there were possibly small service rooms at the rear, but these would have been replaced in circa early C 19 by the large extension to form the present double-depth plan house. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Synnnetrical2-window east front with large 16-pane early C19 sashes in exposed cases. Central doorway with pilastered doorcase with dentilled cornice and fielded 6-panel door; the doorway is now redundant and blocked on the inside. Left [south] return has 2-light casements with glazing bars and fielded 6-panel door to left. Right [north] return has C20 outshut. Rear [west] has various casements and 12-pane sash on first floor to left. INTERIOR: The partitions and possibly a staircase have been removed from between the two front rooms. The left room [parlour] has dado panelling, fireplace with moulded shelf to chimneypiece, panel above and china cupboard to right with shaped shelves. The left room has large rebuilt brick fireplace. Front south chamber has C18 wooden chimneypiece with moulded architrave and dentilled cornice. Some C18 panelled doors survive, but most are C20 facsimiles with brass drop handles. C 18 roof over main front range has staggered tenoned purlins; C 19 roof over rear extension.
Listing NGR: SU7664405487
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 413897
- 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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