Powdermill House Powdermill Hotel Formerly Listed As Powdermill House
POWDERMILL HOUSE POWDERMILL HOTEL FORMERLY LISTED AS POWDERMILL HOUSE, POWDERMILL LANE
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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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:
- POWDERMILL HOUSE POWDERMILL HOTEL FORMERLY LISTED AS POWDERMILL HOUSE, POWDERMILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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.
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