Old Lodge Cottages
OLD LODGE COTTAGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1353696
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Old Lodge Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- OLD LODGE COTTAGES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1353696
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Old Lodge Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD LODGE COTTAGES
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:
- OLD LODGE COTTAGES
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 45908 29960
Details
HARTFIELD NUTLEY 1. 5208 Old Lodge Estate Old Lodge Cottages TQ 42 NE 19/971 II 2. Two cottages, extended from one keeper's lodge. C17, extended on NE in C19 or early C20. Timber framed, faced externally with stone rubble on ground floor and tile-hung above. Plain tile half-hipped roof; centre, probably partly C17, brick stack. Three bay central chimney house, extended as above. Four two-light ground floor casements, two with leaded glazing; one similar window to right hand above and small leaded window to landing. N.E cross-wing in similar style, the S.E projecting tile-hung gable above brick, with external stone chimney breast and single storey stone wing against it with plain tile roof. Jettied N.W end of cross-wing abutting two storey timber framed porch. Interior: original framing of N.E wall visible at first and ground floors, with centre first floor post with small straight braces; original framing visible in S.E wall and in timber framed partitions at first and ground floors; S.W truss with jowled posts, this end wall clad externally with brick on stone. N.E ground floor room with chamfered ceiling beam with joists and fireplace with bressumer and stone brackets. The only extant keeper's lodge in Ashdown Forest, the other six prominently sited keepers' lodge not surviving the partial enclosure of the Forest in 1693. The existing structure of this surviving keeper's lodge also appears to exactly fit the description of the keeper's lodge at Old Lodge from the Parliamentary Surveys of Ashdown Forest of 1658. See report by Wealden Buildings Research Group.
Listing NGR: TQ4590829960
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 297057
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wealden Buildings Research Group Report in Wealden Buildings Research Group Report, ()
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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