Great Ote Hall
GREAT OTE HALL, JANES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1223018
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Great Ote Hall
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT OTE HALL, JANES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1223018
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Great Ote Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT OTE HALL, JANES 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:
- GREAT OTE HALL, JANES LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Lewes (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wivelsfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 33121 20282
Details
WIVELSFIELD JANE'S LANE 1. 5206 Great Ote Hall TQ 32 SW 1/59 17.3.52. I
2. The old portion of this house is a T-shaped building, of which the southern arm forms a very small projection, so that the plan of the house seems more like an L, to which a modillion south wing has been added. The original portion is the west wing which is a timber-framed building, restored, of about 1550 with plaster infilling and close-studding. The east wing was added by Thomas Godman in 1600 and has this date on it. This is also timber-framed, restored. Horsham slab roof. Casement windows. Three windows. The north front forms an L and has chimney breast on the west walls of both the west and north wings, the lower portion in each case being of ashlar, above of red brick. The north wing has a gable oversailing on brackets with a carved pendant and below the gable a 2 storey bay. The west wing has a similar dormer and a modern 2 storey gabled porch. Four windows. The east front has 3 windows. The outer window bays have slightly projecting bays of 2 storeys with gabled dormers over. The centre window bay is similar but projects much more and has an oriel window on the first floor with a pediment over containing the initials G. T. M [Godman, Thomas and Mary] and the date 1600 on the tympanum. Brick chimney breast on the south wall. The house contains a staircase of 1600 circa and contemporary panelling and stone fireplaces. Modern L-wing in matching style to the south-west. The house was occupied in the early C18 by General Sir William Shirley who was Governor of Massachusetts, New England, and of the Bahama Islands, and from 1761 onwards by Selina Countess of Huntingdon who fitted up a room in the house as a Chapel and whose Chaplain, the Rev W Romaine, constantly preached there. Articles in the Sussex Archaeological Collections Volume 19, p 61 and Volume 34, p 255.
Listing NGR: TQ3312120282
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 418541
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sussex Archaeological Collection in Sussex Archaeological Collection, (), 61
Sussex Archaeological Collection in Sussex Archaeological Collection, (), 255
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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