Marlipins Museum

MARLIPINS MUSEUM, HIGH STREET, SHOREHAM-BY-SEA

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1353757
Date first listed:
08-May-1950
List Entry Name:
Marlipins Museum
Statutory Address:
MARLIPINS MUSEUM, HIGH STREET, SHOREHAM-BY-SEA
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1353757
Date first listed:
08-May-1950
Date of most recent amendment:
23-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
Marlipins Museum
Statutory Address 1:
MARLIPINS MUSEUM, HIGH STREET, SHOREHAM-BY-SEA

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
MARLIPINS MUSEUM, HIGH STREET, SHOREHAM-BY-SEA

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

County:
West Sussex
District:
Adur (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 21494 05024

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/01/2013


TQ 2105 SW
6/72
8.5.50


SHOREHAM-BY-SEA
HIGH STREET (north side)
Marlipins Museum


(Formerly listed as Marlipins House)


II*


Store, now museum. C12 and C14. Chequer of squared dressed Caen stone and flint to High Street, with stone dressings and rendered gable end. Flint and pebble with some red brick patching to Middle Street. Horsham stone slab roof, hipped to north. Two storeys. South (High Street) front. Painted pointed-arched windows with round-headed relieving arch over on first floor, to right of centre. Pointed arched and chamfered stone surround doorways to right and left on ground floor with small pointed-arched window off-centre to left. Boarded and ribbed doors, probably C19. East front. Three large irregularly-placed windows on first floor with wood-framed diamond-lattice casements. Two irregularly-spaced small depressed-arched windows on the ground-floor. Interior: Collar-purlin roof supported on crown-post at ends, and in
centre on two queen-posts supporting ties and short crown-posts. Original C14 floor
survives.


Listing NGR: TQ2149405024

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Legacy System number:
297291
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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