Kitchen Garden Walls and Ancillary Buildings at Normanhurst Court
KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS AND ANCILLARY BUILDINGS AT NORMANHURST COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271993
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Kitchen Garden Walls and Ancillary Buildings at Normanhurst Court
- Statutory Address:
- KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS AND ANCILLARY BUILDINGS AT NORMANHURST COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271993
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Kitchen Garden Walls and Ancillary Buildings at Normanhurst Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS AND ANCILLARY BUILDINGS AT NORMANHURST COURT
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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:
- KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS AND ANCILLARY BUILDINGS AT NORMANHURST COURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Rother (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Catsfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ7111815083
Details
TQ 71 NW
1917/21/10025
CATSFIELD Kitchen garden walls and ancillary buildings at Normanhurst Court
II
Walled garden, gardener's house and bothies. c1870 Gothic style garden buildings. Comprises walled garden about 18m square of brown brick with diaper patterns in black brick varying in height up to about 4m with buttresses and cambered entrances. North-east corner has crow-stepped parapet. North-west corner has attached Garden Cottage built for Head Gardener. This is a T-shaped building of brown brick with elaborate diaper patterns, stone dressings and roof of alternate bands of plain and patterned tiles with central brick chimney. Curved gable to 2 main fronts with obelisk finials, stone crosses to apex and blank shield to front elevation. 3-light canted stone bay to front elevation and side doorcase with 6-panelled door. North side of walled garden has a range of 6 one-storey brick lean-to structures of which some were bothies for unmarried under gardeners and others were stoke hole, potting shed, fruit room and office. Sash windows and plank doors. Fireplaces and built-in cupboards survive to bothies. Originally glasshouses were attached to the south face of the north wall but these have been demolished. Normanhurst Court was demolished in the 1950s.
[Sources: unpublished report by Mr D G Phillips on the garden Buildings.]
Listing NGR: TQ7111815083
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468781
- 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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