Hamsey House Cottage Yeomans

HAMSEY HOUSE COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1222113
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1965
List Entry Name:
Hamsey House Cottage Yeomans
Statutory Address:
HAMSEY HOUSE COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1222113
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1965
List Entry Name:
Hamsey House Cottage Yeomans
Statutory Address 1:
HAMSEY HOUSE COTTAGE
Statutory Address 2:
YEOMANS

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HAMSEY HOUSE COTTAGE
Statutory Address:
YEOMANS

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

County:
East Sussex
District:
Lewes (District Authority)
Parish:
Hamsey
National Park:
South Downs
National Grid Reference:
TQ 41111 12559

Details

HAMSEY HAMSEY 1. 5206 Yeomans and TQ 41 SW 10/186 Hamsey House Cottage 20.8.65. II*

2. One building, orginally called Whitefields or Whitefields Cottages. Dated 1584. Timber-framed building with plaster infilling, ground floor rebuilt in flints with red brick dressings and quoins, first floor of west front tile-hung. Horsham slab roof. Casement windows. Those on north front have 2 tiers of 3 lights with wooden mullions and transoms. This front has a gable with ornamental timbers and a moulded bressummer. In front of it is a 2-storeyed projection, probably once a porch, with a gable over having moulded bargeboards and the date 1584. The sides of the projection have ornamental timbering on first floor. C19 L-addition in flints to east. The interior has a C16 staircase and panelling.

Listing NGR: TQ4111112559

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
414199
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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