Plumpton Place
PLUMPTON PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1274171
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Plumpton Place
- Statutory Address:
- PLUMPTON PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1274171
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Plumpton Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLUMPTON 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:
- PLUMPTON PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Lewes (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Plumpton
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 36045 13453
Details
PLUMPTON PLUMPTON 1. 5206 Plumpton Place TQ 31 SE 9/210 17.3.52. II*
2. Built by John Mascall in 1568, with some alterations or additions in the C17. Then, after being reduced to the status of cottages in the C18 and C19 it was restored and adapted in 1928 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Edward Hudson, the first Editor of "Country Life". The house is surrounded by a moat on the north and west sides and by one of 2 adjoining lakes on the east and west sides. It is a timber-framed building, the timbering with plaster infilling being exposed in the north wall. The main front, which is E-shaped, faces west and is now ronted with flints with red brick window dressings and quoins. Tiled roof. Two storeys and attic. Five windows, 3 gabled projections, the outer ones containing attic windows. The centre one contains the porch with a 4-centred brick doorway surmounted by a stone panel with the initials I.M. (John Mascall) and the date 1568. Between the centre and each outer projection is a bay window on ground and first floor with small blind gable over. Casement windows with wooden mullions and transoms. Flint and brick chimney breast on the south wall. L-wing behind to the east altered and enlarged by Lutyens but having an old red brick chimney breast on its south wall. Leonard Mascall, a writer of books on country pursuits in the time of Henry VIII, is said to have been the first person to introduce carp into England from the Danube, keeping them in the moat of Plumpton Place and also to have grown pippin apples here for the first time in England. Article in "Country Life" of 10 September 1932.
Listing NGR: TQ3604513453
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 415738
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 10 September, (1932)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 14 East Sussex,
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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