The Court Hall Town Museum
THE COURT HALL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1234513
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Court Hall Town Museum
- Statutory Address:
- THE COURT HALL, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-05-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/03450/24
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1234513
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Court Hall Town Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COURT HALL, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- TOWN MUSEUM, HIGH STREET
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:
- THE COURT HALL, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN MUSEUM, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Rother (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Icklesham
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 90451 17424
Details
TQ 9023-9123 ICKLESHAM HIGH STREET, WINCHELSEA
(north side)
50/29 The Court Hall and Town
Museum.
3.8.61 (Formerly listed as The
Court Hall, or Town Hall)
GV I
Formerly a scheduled monument. C14 building, altered in the C15 and since. Two
storeys. Three windows. Stone rubble. Tiled roof. Modern obtusely-pointed
two-light windows. Stone doorway. Blocked doorway at west end. Three niches
over, two pointed, one square-headed, with the remains of a cartouche. Four
corbel brackets. Gable end east and west. The west one has the blocked head
of an entrance to the basement. The east one has a window splayed outwards with
three iron grilles, also a C13 doorway reset. C15 crown-post inside. The building
was used as the Town Hall from 1557 onwards and the Mayor of Winchelsea is still
elected there annually. The first floor is used as a museum.
Listing NGR: TQ9045217419
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 410284
- 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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