39 AND 40, HIGH STREET, 39 AND 40, THE MINT
39 AND 40, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251558
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 39 AND 40, HIGH STREET, 39 AND 40, THE MINT
- Statutory Address:
- 39 AND 40, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251558
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 39 AND 40, HIGH STREET, 39 AND 40, THE MINT
- Statutory Address 1:
- 39 AND 40, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 39 AND 40, THE MINT
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:
- 39 AND 40, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 39 AND 40, THE MINT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Rother (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rye
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 91920 20366
Details
1. HIGH STREET THE MINT (North Side)
Nos 39 & 40 TQ 9120 1/67
II GV
2. Originally one house, now 2 shops with rooms above each. 2 storeys. 3 windows. Tiled roof. This is a timber framod building of which the south front facing the greet is entirely modern, and has curved tiles on the lst floor and a shop front below. A passage (known as The Needles) separates the building from the Standard Inn to the west. The timber framing of the original C16 house is visible in this passage, in the west wall of the house. At the north west corner, the eaves overhang to nearly the whole width of the passage, but at the street end tile passage has been cut out of the house itself leaving only a boarded partition as the west wall of the house on the ground floor. The north front has a tile hung gable. The VCH says that No 39 contains C16 panelling and a Cl7 staircase and both houses have ceiling beams and open fireplaces.
Nos 34 to 40 (consec) & The Standard Inn form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ9192120365
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 434277
- 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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