Summers Place
SUMMERS PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261218
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Summers Place
- Statutory Address:
- SUMMERS PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261218
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Summers Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUMMERS PLACE
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:
- SUMMERS PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Horsham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Billingshurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ0947527191
Details
1.
5404
TQ 02 NE
10/7
BILLINGSHURST
Summers Place
II
2.
Country house in landscaped gardens. Circa 1865 in a mixed Neo-Gothic/French
Renaissance style. Red brick with Bath stone dressings. Plain tiled roofs with
ridge cresting. Complicated picturesquely-asymmetrical symmetrical plan, (the
symmetry of plan almost hidden by asymmetry of fenestration, etc). Entrance
elevation: 2 storeys with some garrets in cross-wings. E-Plan with central
entrance projection and end wings with re-entrant angle blocks, all gabled with
parapets, kneelers and finials. Almost regular 9 window front, with 2 gabled
semi-dormers on either side of the entrance, and canted bays on endmost wings,
that to right 2-storey and embattled, that to left on first floor only, with hipped
roof and full-width deeply projecting square bay below. Rounded bay with parapet
on ground-floor of re-entrant angle wing adjoining. Ground-floor of recess to left
hidden by parapetted extension. 2-storey traceried pointed-arched stair window on
re-entrant angle wing to right. Central projection with octagonal corner buttresses
rising to height of gable with machicolated caps and gargoyles at string level over
first-floor. Very tall first-floor oriel on semi-circular plan with stepped stone
conical roof, panelled tracery below windows and moulded stiff-leaf decoration to
underside. All windows transomed and mullioned with some leading and stained glass,
particularly in staircase window. 3-centred arch to entrance on ground-floor of
central projection, with squared surround on shafts, hood-mould decorated spandrels
and panelled boarded door with traceried tops to panels. Rear elevation: Similar
with first-floor oriel-turret at left corner with steep conical roof. Interior:
Hall: arcaded screen neo-Jacobean plaster ceiling. Large stone neo-French Gothic
hooded fireplace with traceried panelling and heavily moulded surround and four-
centred arch. Library: bookcases with glazing and nail-head decoration. Fireplace
with compartmented overmantel framing mirror, fire-surround of black tiles with
storks in white and gold and stone four-centred arched fireplace. Staircase:
Imperial with short intermediate flights. Open traceried balustrades.
Listing NGR: TQ0947527191
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 299738
- 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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