Ray's Cottage the Old Bakehouse
RAY'S COTTAGE, GARDNER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1353361
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Ray's Cottage the Old Bakehouse
- Statutory Address:
- RAY'S COTTAGE, GARDNER STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-01-19
- Reference:
- IOE01/03260/09
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1353361
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Ray's Cottage the Old Bakehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAY'S COTTAGE, GARDNER STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- RAY'S COTTAGE, WEST END
- Statutory Address 3:
- THE OLD BAKEHOUSE, GARDNER STREET
- Statutory Address 4:
- THE OLD BAKEHOUSE, WEST END
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:
- RAY'S COTTAGE, GARDNER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- RAY'S COTTAGE, WEST END
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD BAKEHOUSE, GARDNER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD BAKEHOUSE, WEST END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Wealden (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Herstmonceux
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 63367 12637
Details
HERSTMONCEUX WESTEND TQ 6312 Gardner Street 37/384 (south side)
The Old Bakery
II
The entry shall be amended to read;
TQ 6312 HERSTMONCEUX WESTEND
Gardner Street (south side) 37/384 The Old Bakehouse and Ray's Cottage
II
2 cottages, probably once lobby entrance house. C18 altered C20. Timber-framed clad in weatherboarding with tile hung extension to rear of The Old Bakehouse. Half-hipped roof, now tiled but probably originally thatched, with central brick chimneystack. The Old Bakehouse has external chimneystack to rear and Ray's Cottage has external chimneystack to side. 2 storeys 2 windows. The Old Bakehouse has C19 triple sliding window to first floor, triple casement to ground floor and left side doorcase with weather hood. Ray's Cottage has a C19 casement to first floor. Ground floor has C20 casements and central plank door under wooden penticed weather hood. Outshut to Ray's Cottage has open fireplace with wooden bressumer and exposed floor joists, series of plank doors, including a winder staircase situated behind an early C19 plank door.
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HERSTMONCEUX WESTEND 1. 5208 Gardner Street (south side) The Old Bakery TQ 6312 37/384
II
2. C18 or earlier. Two storeys. Two windows. Faced with weather-boarding. Hipped tiled roof. Casement windows.
Listing NGR: TQ6336712637
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 295369
- 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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