THE WATTLE HOUSE

THE WATTLE HOUSE, NEPCOTE GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237845
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: THE WATTLE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE WATTLE HOUSE, NEPCOTE GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237845
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: THE WATTLE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE WATTLE HOUSE, NEPCOTE GREEN

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 WATTLE HOUSE, NEPCOTE GREEN

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

County:: West Sussex
District:: Arun (District Authority)
Parish:: Findon
National Park:: SOUTH DOWNS
National Grid Reference:: TQ 12670 08422

Details

The following building shall be added to the list;

TQ 1208 FINDON NEPCOTE GREEN Nepcote

23/10044 The Wattle House

II

Wattle storage house. Built between 1792 and 1803, probably by George Holford who got permission from the lord of Findon Manor in 1790 to hold an annual sheep fair at Nepcote Green. This building was designed to store the wattles. Built of flint with red brick dressings. Slate roof with 4 brick stacks. Two to three storeys; 3 windows. Cambered window openings, boarded at time of survey. Horseshoe-arched entrances to ground floor with double doors. A unique survival in a national context, one of a very small number of buildings which manifest the importance of sheep to the economy of the southern downlands. Hurdles for fairs were normally stored in the open, such as at Priddy in Somerset where they have become a permanent fixture in the centre of the green. [See VCH Sussex p204, Sussex County Magazine, 1927.]

Listing NGR: TQ1267008422

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Legacy System number:: 415163
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Derby, (1905), 204
'Sussex County Magazine' in Sussex County Magazine, (1927)

Legal

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