Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1285557
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Wenbans
- Statutory Address:
- WENBANS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1285557
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Wenbans
- Statutory Address 1:
- WENBANS
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:
- WENBANS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Wealden (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wadhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 63369 29780
Details
WADHURST SCRAG OAK 1. 5208 TQ 62 NW 22/448 Wenbans 26.11.53 II* 2. The original building on the site is said to have been a royal hunting lodge, possibly of King John. The surviving building is a C15 timber-framed building, altered in the C16. Two storeys. Four windows. The west half is faced with weather-boarding. The east half is partly weather-boarded, partly red brick the first floor tile hung and oversailing on brackets. Tiled roof. Casement windows. To the south-east of the house was a C16 timber-framed barn which has been incorporated into the house and joined to it by a corridor which was formerly a cow shed.
Listing NGR: TQ6336929780
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 296825
- 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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