SWANBOROUGH MANOR AND THE DOVECOT TO NORTH WEST OF THE HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1274722
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-1952
List Entry Name:: SWANBOROUGH MANOR AND THE DOVECOT TO NORTH WEST OF THE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SWANBOROUGH MANOR AND THE DOVECOT TO NORTH WEST OF THE HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1274722
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-1952
List Entry Name:: SWANBOROUGH MANOR AND THE DOVECOT TO NORTH WEST OF THE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SWANBOROUGH MANOR AND THE DOVECOT TO NORTH WEST OF THE HOUSE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SWANBOROUGH MANOR AND THE DOVECOT TO NORTH WEST OF THE HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: East Sussex
District:: Lewes (District Authority)
Parish:: Iford
National Park:: SOUTH DOWNS
National Grid Reference:: TQ 40094 07806

Details

IFORD 1. 5206 Swanborough Manor and the dovecot to north-west of the house TQ 4007 24/379 17.3.52. I

2. L-shaped building. The original portion of the building was part of a Grange of St Pancras Priory, Lewes, which was the administrative centre for the monastic farms of the district. This is the west wing which dates from about 1200, altered and enlarged in the C15. It comprised the hall and part of the Chapel to the east. It is faced with flints and stone rubble with a tiled roof. The north wall has a central chimney breast of flints with stone quoins, a later brick top and 2 tiny quatrefoil ornaments in it. This front also has one blocked stone lancet window of 1200 circa, 3 C15 windows of 2 trefoil-headed lights with dripstones over, one C15 cinquefoil-headed single-light window, a pointed doorway of 1200 circa and a C15 doorway at first floor level blocked with flints with an obtusely pointed head. The west wall has a partly obscured circular window of 1200 circa and a C16 cmquefoil-headed window. Beyond this to the west is the C15 Gatehouse with a pointed archway on the ground floor. Above this was originally a passage leading to the (demolished west wing) but this has been converted into a dovecot with nesting-boxes of chalk blocks. The south front of this wing has a buttress. The east front of the mediaeval wing is faced with flints with stone quoins but is of red brick at the top with a tile-hung gable over. One window. The south wing is a timber-framed building added in the C16 but refronted in the C18 with red brick and grey headers on ground floor above tile-hung. Tiled roof. Sash windows with glazing bars intact. Its western wall is of painted brick with 3 half-hipped gables and a small porch. Two storeys and attic. Five windows. Three dormers. (Article in the Sussex Archaeological Society Collections Vol 77, p 3).

Listing NGR: TQ4010207802

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Legacy System number:: 414470
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Sussex Archaeological Collection' in Sussex Archaeological Collection, , Vol. 77, (), 3

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.