TICEHURST HOUSE PRIVATE CLINIC

TICEHURST HOUSE PRIVATE CLINIC, WADHURST ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237674
Date first listed:: 13-May-1987
List Entry Name:: TICEHURST HOUSE PRIVATE CLINIC
Statutory Address:: TICEHURST HOUSE PRIVATE CLINIC, WADHURST ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237674
Date first listed:: 13-May-1987
List Entry Name:: TICEHURST HOUSE PRIVATE CLINIC
Statutory Address 1:: TICEHURST HOUSE PRIVATE CLINIC, WADHURST ROAD

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:: TICEHURST HOUSE PRIVATE CLINIC, WADHURST ROAD

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

County:: East Sussex
District:: Rother (District Authority)
Parish:: Ticehurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ 68207 30536

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/06/2012

TQ 6830-6930 34/55

TICEHURST WADHURST ROAD Ticehurst House Private Clinic

II

Large L-shaped building. The original portion is the north east wing which was an early C19 house. Three storeys. Five windows. Stuccoed. Cornices above first and second floors. Parapet. Glazing bars intact. Pointed projection of two sides at south end. To the south of this is a probably contemporary portion of two storeys and five windows with a slate roof. The main south portion is mid C19. three storeys. Thirteen windows facing south, six windows facing east. Stuccoed. Ornamental pierced balustrade to roof. The south elevation comprises a centre portion and two projecting wings of unequal width flanked by rusticated quoins. The west wing has a central doorway with engaged Doric columns. The west front has ten windows and a lower centre portion and taller wing to north. Further small L-wing of three windows to north west.

HISTORY: In 1792 Samuel Newington (1739-1811) opened a privately run madhouse for less than twenty patients at Ticehurst in Sussex, only ten miles from the fashionable spa town of Tunbridge Wells (Parry-Jones 1972). Newington appears to have bought a country mansion set in its own landscape and used it to house and treat his patients, although it is also possible that he erected the building himself, without any obvious architectural means of classifying the lunatic patients. In 1812 Charles Newington built the house known as Highlands as his own residence. Situated within the grounds close to the asylum building, it later also seems to have housed some of the wealthier patients. Two of Charles's sons, Charles (1781-1852) and Jesse (1779-1819), having become surgeons, assisted their father at the asylum and took over at his death in 1811. In 1816 they employed men who had been demobilised after the Battle of Waterloo to landscape and ornament over 40 acres (c 16ha) surrounding the asylum and Highlands (MacKenzie 1992). Jesse died in 1819 and Mrs Newington, their mother, in 1831. Charles became the sole proprietor, having produced a brochure for the asylum c 1830. By the late 1820s (brochure, c 1830) Ticehurst was one of the more lavish private asylums, the 40 acres (c 16ha) of grounds being laid out for the use of the patients.

Listing NGR: TQ6820730536

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Legacy System number:: 414931
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.