POWDERMILL HOUSE POWDERMILL HOTEL FORMERLY LISTED AS POWDERMILL HOUSE

POWDERMILL HOUSE POWDERMILL HOTEL FORMERLY LISTED AS POWDERMILL HOUSE, POWDERMILL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1231456
Date first listed:: 13-May-1987
List Entry Name:: POWDERMILL HOUSE POWDERMILL HOTEL FORMERLY LISTED AS POWDERMILL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: POWDERMILL HOUSE POWDERMILL HOTEL FORMERLY LISTED AS POWDERMILL HOUSE, POWDERMILL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1231456
Date first listed:: 13-May-1987
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Dec-2001
List Entry Name:: POWDERMILL HOUSE POWDERMILL HOTEL FORMERLY LISTED AS POWDERMILL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: POWDERMILL HOUSE POWDERMILL HOTEL FORMERLY LISTED AS POWDERMILL HOUSE, POWDERMILL 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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Statutory Address:: POWDERMILL HOUSE POWDERMILL HOTEL FORMERLY LISTED AS POWDERMILL HOUSE, POWDERMILL LANE

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County:: East Sussex
District:: Rother (District Authority)
Parish:: Battle
National Grid Reference:: TQ7421514610

Details

TQ 71 SW 1917/29/29 13-MAY-87

BATTLE POWDERMILL LANE POWDERMILL HOUSE Powdermill Hotel (Formerly listed as: POWDERMILL LANE POWDERMILL HOUSE POWDERMILL HOUSE)

II

House at gunpowder works, now hotel. c1794, converted to hotel c1980. Painted brick with brick external stacks and tiled hipped roof.

PLAN: Complex L-shaped plan with a central entrance stair hall linking double-depth ranges either side, the right-hand one extends back with single-storey ranges (former process buildings) within re-entrant.

EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2:1:3 fenestration to ground floor of front with hipped block to left of wider central block, linked by one-window porch to right-hand block. Mid-Georgian style. Near symmetrical front has 6/6-pane sash over parapeted central entrance with flat roof, a panelled door with margin lights under a deep canopy on columns, 6/9-pane ground-floor and 6/6-pane first-floor hornless sashes in flush frames, with an oculus on the first floor to the left of the central window. Left-hand side range has a single window facing front. Right-hand wing extends back, with 4 windows to rear of late-C20 extension; a series of narrow single-storey ranges with hipped roofs extend out from both sides at the rear.

INTERIOR: Altered, the hall contains a stair with stick balusters.

HISTORY: The Battle gunpowder mill operated from the late C17 until 1876, the middle of three on the river Asten.

Powdermill House, situated below the mill dam, was rebuilt after an explosion in 1796. It contained the proprietor's residence and various process buildings, which probably included the single-storey ranges at the rear. The apparent concentration of processes in one large structure is unique in the gunpowder industry, the buildings of which were usually highly dispersed in single-process structures. It is not clear how the house is related to the water-powered activities of the works which would have been located below the mill pond.

(Blackman, H, 'The Story of the Old Gunpowder Works at Battle', Sussex Archaeological Collections, vol 4, pp 109-22, 1923; Crocker, G, Gunpowder Mills Gazetteer, 1988)

Listing NGR: TQ7421514610

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Legacy System number:: 292243
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Crocker, G, The Gunpowder Mills Gazetteer, (1988)
Blackman, H, 'Sussex Archaeological Collections' in The Story of the Old Gunpowder Works at Battle, , Vol. 4, (1923), 109-122

Legal

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