ASHBURNHAM FURNACE (PAY COTTAGE)

ASHBURNHAM FURNACE (PAY COTTAGE), 1, 2 AND 3, LAKEHURST LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1229924
Date first listed:: 03-Aug-1961
List Entry Name:: ASHBURNHAM FURNACE (PAY COTTAGE)
Statutory Address:: ASHBURNHAM FURNACE (PAY COTTAGE), 1, 2 AND 3, LAKEHURST LANE

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Date:: 2001-08-17
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1229924
Date first listed:: 03-Aug-1961
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-May-1987
List Entry Name:: ASHBURNHAM FURNACE (PAY COTTAGE)
Statutory Address 1:: ASHBURNHAM FURNACE (PAY COTTAGE), 1, 2 AND 3, LAKEHURST LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: ASHBURNHAM FURNACE (PAY COTTAGE), 1, 2 AND 3, LAKEHURST LANE

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

County:: East Sussex
District:: Rother (District Authority)
Parish:: Ashburnham
National Grid Reference:: TQ 68480 17086

Details

TQ 61 NE ASHBURNHAM LAKEHURST LANE

20/26 Nos 1, 2 and 3 Ashburnham Furnace, (Pay Cottage). 3.8.61 (formerly-listed as Ashburnham Furnace (Three Cottages)).

II

Former furnace, now 3 cottages C17 and C18. The main portion comprising the North East and centre cottages is timber-framed. The portion comprising the South West cottage is an C18 addition. The whole building is fronted with red brick and grey headers on ground floor and tile-hung above. Tiled roof. Casement windows with diamond-shaped leaded lights. 2 storeys. 4 windows. The C18 addition (Pay Cottage) has a half-hipped gable end containing an attic window and a doorway with flat hood on brackets. This was the last furnace in Sussex at which iron was smelted. It was in operation as late as 1825, though most of the Sussex furnaces had ceased to work about 50 years before.

Listing NGR: TQ6848017086

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Legacy System number:: 292083
Legacy System:: LBS

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