Hartshorn House the Link
HARTSHORN HOUSE, 31, MERMAID STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1251959
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hartshorn House the Link
- Statutory Address:
- HARTSHORN HOUSE, 31, MERMAID STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1251959
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Aug-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Hartshorn House the Link
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARTSHORN HOUSE, 31, MERMAID STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE LINK, MERMAID 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:
- HARTSHORN HOUSE, 31, MERMAID STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE LINK, MERMAID 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 91956 20280
Details
1. 1578 MERMAID STREET (North Side)
TQ 9120 1/122 12.10.51 No 31 (Hartshorn House). 8.8.68. The Link.
II" (NO 31) GV II
2. This was built as a private house and the name dates only from the Napoleonic wars, when the house was used as a hospital. The front portion is a C15 timber-framed house of which many of the timbers have been renewed. The 1st floor overhangs on brackets shaped like a double volute. 3 gables added in the C16 (one dated 1576) carried on curved coving and brackets. Tiled roof. Modern easement windows. At the west end of the house is a passageway through the house on the ground floor with a wrought iron gate. The VCH says that there is a C16 wing behind and that the house has a stone vaulted cellar, Tudor fireplaces and C18 panelling. To the east is an C18 house which has been rebuilt in modern times and is now used as the service wing of the Old Hospital. This has 2 storeys and 3 windows. Red brick and grey headers. Wooden cornice and tiled roof, all renewed. 6-panel moulded door. There is another mediaeval cellar beneath this house.
All the listed buildings in Mermaid Street form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ9195620280
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 434850
- 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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