Battle Hospital Including Perimeter Wall
BATTLE HOSPITAL INCLUDING PERIMETER WALL, NORTH TRADE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238394
- Date first listed:
- 01-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Battle Hospital Including Perimeter Wall
- Statutory Address:
- BATTLE HOSPITAL INCLUDING PERIMETER WALL, NORTH TRADE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238394
- Date first listed:
- 01-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Battle Hospital Including Perimeter Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BATTLE HOSPITAL INCLUDING PERIMETER WALL, NORTH TRADE ROAD
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:
- BATTLE HOSPITAL INCLUDING PERIMETER WALL, NORTH TRADE ROAD
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:
- TQ 73140 15954
Details
TQ 71 NW BATTLE NORTH TRADE ROAD
21/13 Battle Hospital including perimeter wall
II
Originally a Poor Law Institution 1840-50. Tudor Gothic building of unusual design. Coursed stone with ashlar quoins. The building forms a rectangular courtyard with a tail piece to the North. The south side facing the road has a projecting centre portion of 3 storeys. The central W. bay of it breaks forward still further and has a four-centred chamfered carriage archway on the ground floor with 2 stores above and a gable surmounting it. The window bays on each side are of 3 sashes only with gable over each that is slightly lower than the centre gable. Flanking this central block are small single storey buildings looking inwards. with no windows facing the road. At the outer ends are small similar blocks at right angles with a gable over each and a window facing south in the east one. Then low garden walls, with an opening in the centre of each, joint the last to the South ends of the East and West sides of the court-yard which consists of 2 storeys and 1 window each with a gable over. All the windows are square-headed casements of 3 obtusely-pointed lights. Slate roofs. Diagonally placed brick chimneys. Within the court-yard the North side has 25 windows, 2 stores and in the centre a higher block of 3 stores (3 windows) with splayed front and a gable over the centre of each portion flanking this central feature. The east and west sides of the court- yard have 6 windows each.
Listing NGR: TQ7314015954
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 415901
- 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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