THE COURT HALL TOWN MUSEUM

THE COURT HALL, HIGH STREET

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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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Official list entry

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE COURT HALL, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: TOWN MUSEUM, HIGH STREET

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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

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Legacy System number:: 410284
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.