Crawley Museum
Crawley Museum, 103, High Street, Crawley, RH10 1DD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298877
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1948
- List Entry Name:
- Crawley Museum
- Statutory Address:
- Crawley Museum, 103, High Street, Crawley, RH10 1DD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298877
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1948
- List Entry Name:
- Crawley Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- Crawley Museum, 103, High Street, Crawley, RH10 1DD
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:
- Crawley Museum, 103, High Street, Crawley, RH10 1DD
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 26825 36839
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/11/2019
TQ 2636 NE
5/28
CRAWLEY
HIGH STREET (east side)
No 103, Crawley Museum
(Formerly listed as Crawley Museum Centre, previously listed as No 103 ('The Tree') (offices of the Crawley Borough Council Housing and Estates Department))
21.6.48
II
Late C15 to early C16 timber-framed L-shaped open hall-house embedded in a brick and brick faced building altered and extended in the C18, C19 and circa 1936. Two storeys. Brick with part of first floor tile hung. Tiled roofs but part hung with Horsham slabs.
The south wing running east and west remains substantially intact. Internally a solar
of three bays, now two rooms comprise the upper storey of this wing. The trusses, which are exposed, consist of principal cambered tie-beam with supporting brackets carrying king-post, collar and central purlin supported from the King-post by two way struts. The main uprights of the walls of this wing are stop chamfered. A ground floor room at the west end of this wing has massive cross-beam and heavy close-set joists. The chimney beam of the open fireplace is exposed. Externally the chimney breast is of
local Sussex stone and surmounted by an C18 brick chimney stack. The hall range running north and south is marked by its higher roof-ridge. Its western slope is covered with Horsham slabs. It has been much altered and floors inserted but part of its timber-framed structure is visible internally. An addition has been made on the east side forming an entrance hall.
A two-storey wing running south extending the west front was added early in the C18 when the west wall of the solar wing was faced in brick to match. The upper storey of the solar wing is tile hung. The north end of the house was rebuilt in brick in the C19 and remodelled and replanned as servants' quarters circa 1936 when the house was restored. Most of the windows are C20 steel casements.
A weatherboarded structure to the east of the house, which was a Medieval moot hall, has been moved to the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton and re-erected in its original form.
Listing NGR: TQ2682536839
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 363351
- 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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