Ashdown Park
ASHDOWN PARK, WYCH CROSS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286432
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Ashdown Park
- Statutory Address:
- ASHDOWN PARK, WYCH CROSS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286432
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Ashdown Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHDOWN PARK, WYCH CROSS
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:
- ASHDOWN PARK, WYCH CROSS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Wealden (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hartfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 43093 32151
Details
HARTFIELD WYCH CROSS 1. 5208 Ashdown Park TQ 43 SW 11/119 II 2. Originally a country mansion. Later the Convent of Notre Dame, when it was considerably enlarged. Now Barclays Bank Training Department. The original portion as a house dates from 1867. Two storeys and attic. Six windows. Ashlar. Slate roof. Flanked by crow-stepped gables. Beneath these are projecting bays of 5 lights each on ground and first floors with castellated parapets over. Thin pointed sash windows, mostly in pairs. Quatrefoil openings over the ground floor windows. Service wing to west. To the west again is a later Convent addition. On the east side the house is adjoined by a screen to the former chapel of Our Lady and St Richard, now a lecture room. This was added to the Convent in 1926. It comprises a chancel, nave and south-west tower. Stone. Steep slate roof. C14 Gothic style. To the east again is a further but detached Convent wing probably of the same date as the chapel.
Listing NGR: TQ4309332151
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 296358
- 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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