Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276465
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Covers
- Statutory Address:
- COVERS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276465
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Covers
- Statutory Address 1:
- COVERS
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:
- COVERS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Chichester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Linchmere
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 86992 30509
Details
SU 83 SE LINCHMERE LINCHMERE
2/15 Covers
17.7.84
- II
Mid C16 four bay timber-framed house with central smoke bay, the rear outshut built up
and the house extended on NW in C20. Original front elevation to SW, the ground floor
faced with Hythe sandstone with red brick dressings to windows, the upper floor faced with tile hanging; plain tile hipped roof with large red brick stack to right hand. Casement windows with leaded panes, the ground floor windows with cambered heads. Inside, timber-framed walling exposed on first and ground floors, stopped and chamfered beams; 2 backing hearths in the small central bay each with bread ovens and a small square recess at the back of each fireplace, one side of the SE hearth built up of large pieces of dressed stone with chamfered edge, thought to have been brought from the nearby and former Shulbrede Priory. Clasped purlin roof with windbraces with heavy sooting on the inner sides of the small central smoke bay. See DBRG (Survey) report no 1497; see A Ponsonby, Priory and Manor of Shulbrede and Linchmere, 1920.
Listing NGR: SU8699230509
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 301921
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ponsonby, A, Priory and Manor of Shulbrede and Linchmere, (1920)
Domestic Buildings Research Group Report in Domestic Buildings Research Group Report, Vol. 1497, ()
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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