Wellingham House
WELLINGHAM HOUSE, WELLINGHAM LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238956
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Wellingham House
- Statutory Address:
- WELLINGHAM HOUSE, WELLINGHAM LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238956
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Wellingham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELLINGHAM HOUSE, WELLINGHAM LANE
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:
- WELLINGHAM HOUSE, WELLINGHAM LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Lewes (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ringmer
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 43017 13313
Details
RINGMER
946/10/605 WELLINGHAM LANE
20-AUG-65 Wellingham House
II
Private house. Built about 1800 on the site of an earlier building, for the Rickman family; extensively remodelled 1955-71 for Ian Askew by Raymond Erith. Red brick, tile and timber, hipped slate roof, with large stacks and dormers. Two storeys and attics. Three windows facing east, 2 windows facing north and south. Wide eaves bracket cornice. Sash windows with glazing bars. Porch with Doric columns and pediment. Round-headed doorway with semi-circular fanlight. The south front was remodelled by Erith to incorporate a wing which had been a later addition to the original house. Part of this was pulled down in 1955 in order to build the library, which was approached through a new octagonal ante-room (decorated with Chinese wallpaper brought from Panshanger). In 1960 Erith added two new wings at the front of the house, which were clad in wood and painted to look like stone; single storey. Centre portion of each wing projects with pediment over, with two round-arched windows either side of central niche, and with central stack over. These provided larger drawing and dining rooms, in respectively a C18 and c.1830 style. Trellised verandah added to older part of south-west front as part of this scheme. First-floor dining room added in 1971, tile hung; conservatory and the trellis outside the library also of this date.
Sources
House and Garden, November 1958, pp.64-7
House and Garden, September 1983, pp.122-7
Lucy Archer, Raymond Erith Architect, 1985, p.139
Listing NGR: TQ4301713313
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 416571
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Archer, L, Raymond Erith Architect , (1985), 139
House and Garden in November, (1958), 64-7
House and Garden in September, (1983), 122-7
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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