Benfield Barn

BENFIELD BARN, HANGLETON LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1298634
Date first listed:
29-Aug-1973
List Entry Name:
Benfield Barn
Statutory Address:
BENFIELD BARN, HANGLETON LANE
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1298634
Date first listed:
29-Aug-1973
Date of most recent amendment:
02-Nov-1992
List Entry Name:
Benfield Barn
Statutory Address 1:
BENFIELD BARN, HANGLETON LANE

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BENFIELD BARN, HANGLETON LANE

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

District:
The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 26291 07129

Details

HOVE

TQ20NW HANGLETON LANE, Hangleton 579-1/3/155 (North side) 29/08/73 Benfield Barn (Formerly Listed as: Former Benfield Farm Barn facing west Hove Golf Course)

II

Barn. Probably C18. Coursed flint pebbles with red brick dressings and quoins, clay tiled roof. Plan: wagon entrances centre east and west fronts, outshuts under catslide roofs north-east and south-east, remains of three small single cell structures at south gable end. Gable ends with ventilation slits, square opening below eaves north-west corner, boarded up with corrugated-iron sheeting, timber post visible on facade to left of entrance, cast-iron sheeting to former double doors of wagon entrance, tiles missing from sections of outshuts; gable ends and much of facade obscured by vegetation at time of survey. Interior not accessible, said to have a queen post roof. The barn was part of the farm at Benfield Manorhouse, built early C17 and demolished 1871 when the range of cottages to the south (not included) was constructed. Further farm buildings of interest may survive beneath dense vegetation to east.

Listing NGR: TQ2629107129

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
365537
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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