Freeman Hardy and Willis Smith Bros
FREEMAN HARDY AND WILLIS, 48, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279697
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Freeman Hardy and Willis Smith Bros
- Statutory Address:
- FREEMAN HARDY AND WILLIS, 48, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279697
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Freeman Hardy and Willis Smith Bros
- Statutory Address 1:
- FREEMAN HARDY AND WILLIS, 48, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- SMITH BROS, 44 AND 46, HIGH STREET
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:
- FREEMAN HARDY AND WILLIS, 48, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- SMITH BROS, 44 AND 46, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Crawley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 26736 36572
Details
HIGH STREET 1. 5403 (west side) Nos 44, 46 and 48 (Smith Bros and Freeman Hardy and Willis) TQ 2636 NE 5/32 II GV 2. C16 timber-framed house, remodelled in C18 and shops inserted in middle of C19. Two storeys. Front stuccoed with later shopfronts. Four mid C19 sashes with moulded architraves and vertical glazing bars. Hipped roof now covered with modern pantiles. Left hand bay has C17 to C18 brickwork and some timber-framing of this period. Overhang to Ifield Road elevation. This elevation has a 2-storey range stuccoed, probably with timber-framed core with casement windows and Horsham stone slab roof. C17 brick chimneystack. Internally, some of the structural timber-framing is exposed on the first floor. Square framing and some close-studding. The roof is not earlier than the C18 but the Horsham slabs may have been reused. Early C18 dogleg staircase with moulded handrail, newel posts and turned balusters goes up from first floor to attic and there is a short run of the balustrade at the stair foot. Early C18 corner fireplace with wooden bolection-moulded surround. When the shops were formed in the Mid C19 the upper storey was underpinned on iron stanchions.
Listing NGR: TQ2673636572
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 363354
- 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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