Kingsleys
KINGSLEYS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1354942
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Kingsleys
- Statutory Address:
- KINGSLEYS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1354942
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Kingsleys
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGSLEYS, HIGH STREET
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:
- KINGSLEYS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Mid Sussex (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cuckfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30456 24764
Details
TQ 3024 NW CUCKFIELD HIGH STREET (west side) 7/45 Kingsleys 10.9.51 (formerly listed as 'Attrees') GV II House. Probably early C16 restored C20. Timber-framed having exposed rectangular panels with plaster infill, underbuilt in red brick to ground floor on south. Left side tile hung, right side weather-boarded. Mainly tiled roof, the 4 bottom courses of Horsham stone slabs. T-shaped plan. Probably 3 bay hall with gabled crossing to north. 2 storeys, 4 windows all C20 casements with 2 storey canted bay to crossing. Large off-central ridge brick stack and 1 gabled tile hung dormer. Deep modillion eaves cornice to hall. Off-central modern brick and timber gabled porch and to south, early C19 6 panelled door (the top 4 fielded) in a moulded architrave with flat head on brackets. Interior (not seen at time of survey) has roof of side purlins with wind braces, fireplaces and exposed ceilings with plain beams and joists to both floors. Henry Kingsley the novelist lived here for a time. (See VCH Vol VII p 148 (1830-1876).
Listing NGR: TQ3045624764
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 302957
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Saltzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Sussex, (1940), 148
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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