Flushing Inn Monks Way
5, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1251880
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Flushing Inn Monks Way
- Statutory Address:
- 5, MARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1251880
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Flushing Inn Monks Way
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5, MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- FLUSHING INN, 4, MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- MONKS WAY, 3, MARKET STREET
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:
- 5, MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address:
- FLUSHING INN, 4, MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address:
- MONKS WAY, 3, MARKET STREET
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 92180 20347
Details
In the entry for: MARKET STREET TQ 9220 1/27 Number 3 Number 4 (The Old Flushing Inn) 12.10.51 Number 5
GV II
the entry shall be amended to read;
TQ 9220 RYE MARKET STREET
1/27 Number 3 (Monks Way) Number 4 (Flushing Inn) 12.10.51 Number 5
GV II* (star)
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1. 1578 MARKET STREET
No 5 No 4 (The Old Flushing Inn) No 5 TQ 9220 1/27 12.10.51.
II GV
2. C15 timber-framed houses with overhanging upper storeys, largely refaced in the C18. 2 storeys and attic. 5 windows in all. The ground floor is C18 brickwork painted. The 1st floor of Nos 3 and 5 is covered with plaster, but the studs and moulded bressumer below have recently been exposed to view in No 4. A dentilled eaves cornice was added in the C18. The ground floor of No 4 was underbuilt. Tiled roof. Nos 3 and 4 have 1 dormer each. Nos 3 and 5 have C18 sash windows. No 3 has 2 small bay windows on the ground floor (glazing bars missing), No 4 still has casement windows but they have been enlarged. A small blocked window space is visible on either side of the 1st floor window. No 4 has an obtusely pointed doorway with carved spandrels. Nos 3 and 4 originally consisted of a hall and 2 wings. The hall and part of the west wing are now in No 4, and the east wing is No 3. The VCH says that the ground floor of the hall has a C15 ceiling, an open C16 fireplace and a mural painting of 1536-1537, also the original roof of the upper storey. Behind the hall is a C16 addition. No 5 has an original extension to the south, with a chimney stack and large open fireplaces. Behind this is a small building of about 1500, with an overhanging upper storey on the west This building also has an arched doorway with carved spandrels, mediaeval cellars below Nos 3 and 4. In the 1st half of the C18 No 4 was an inn called the Flushing. During this period it was owned by the butcher John Breads who murdered Allen Greball in 1742. He was the last man to be hanged in Rye, and his skull and the iron frame in which he was gibbetted are preserved in the Town Hall.
Durrant House, Nos 3 to 7 (consec), Town Hall and L Rochelle, East Street form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ9217920345
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 434750
- 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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