54-60, CHURCH SQUARE
54-60, CHURCH SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262743
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 54-60, CHURCH SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 54-60, CHURCH SQUARE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262743
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 54-60, CHURCH SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 54-60, CHURCH SQUARE
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:
- 54-60, CHURCH SQUARE
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 92096 20269
Details
1. 1578 CHURCH SQUARE (West Side)
Nos 54 to 60 (even) TQ 9220 1/20 12.10.51.
II GV
2. One range with a C18 front to a timber-framed C15 house originally called Grene Hall, later the Custom House, consisting of a middle hall with solar and buttery wings. Nos 54 and 56 were the buttery wing. 2 storeys and attic. 7 windows in all. 2 dormers containing casement windows. Fronted with red mathematical tiles which have been renewed in places and in some parts replaced by ordinary red tiles. Tiled roof. Windows in reveals. Flat hoods to doorways, that at No 60 being a large heavy hood resting on carved consoles or brackets. 6-panel moulded doors. The north wall of No 60 has a projecting C16 chimney stack with a stepped gable and a pointed doorway in the stack with drip stone over it and steps down through it to the cellar, which is mediaeval. The VCH says that the hall, now in Nos 58 and 60 (old Nos 8 and 7) has a C15 roof and a C16 fireplace, panelling and staircase. Queen Elizabeth was receivedhere in 1573.
Nos 48 to 64 (even) form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ9209520267
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 291928
- 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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