Little Pelham

LITTLE PELHAM, BLACK HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1354960
Date first listed:
06-Apr-1970
List Entry Name:
Little Pelham
Statutory Address:
LITTLE PELHAM, BLACK HILL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1354960
Date first listed:
06-Apr-1970
List Entry Name:
Little Pelham
Statutory Address 1:
LITTLE PELHAM, BLACK HILL

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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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LITTLE PELHAM, BLACK HILL

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

County:
West Sussex
District:
Mid Sussex (District Authority)
Parish:
Lindfield
National Grid Reference:
TQ 34450 25272

Details

TQ 3426 LINDFIELD BLACK HILL (north east side) 6/152 Little Pelham 6.4.70 GV II House, formerly schoolmaster's house. c1825 built by William Allen (1770-1843) a Quaker and Social Reformer. This building and No's 1-6 Pelham Place Cottages (see item 151) the only surviving buildings from Allen's social experiment. Stuccoed with hipped slate roof. 2 storeys 2 windows. 12 paned sashes on 1st floor with jalousies. Ground floor window also 12 paned with rectangular fan- lights above. Simple right hand doorcase with 4 panelled door. Tented canopy on cast iron pillars. Attached at each end are sections of curved walling in rat trap bond, ramped up at ends, with moulded brick coping, terminating in square sandstone piers with stone caps. (See Country Life - November 22nd 1956).

Listing NGR: TQ3445025272

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Legacy System number:
303063
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Country Life in 22 November, (1956)

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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