The Grange and Attached Walls and Gate Piers

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3602NE THE GREEN, Rottingdean
577-1/60/1085 (East side)
13/10/52 The Grange and attached walls and
gate piers
(Formerly Listed as:
THE GREEN, Rottingdean
The Grange)
(Formerly Listed as:
THE GREEN, Rottingdean
Garden Wall & Gate piers in front of
The Grange & Grange Lodge)

GV II

Detached house. Built c1740 and used as a vicarage until 1908,
extended by 2 windows' range c1800 by Dr Hooker, altered and
enlarged by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1920 for Sir George Lewis.
Stucco to the front elevation flint, cobbles and
weatherboarding to the rest, roof of tiles. The original house
was roughly rectangular in plan, with its long front facing
west; Lutyens added a wing to the north, and extended a
southern wing, making it U-shaped.
EXTERIOR: the entrance front is of 2 storeys and 7 windows.
Flat-arched entrance under shallow porch consisting of engaged
antae, cast-iron Ionic columns and entablature; doorcase with
overlight and 6-panelled door. All windows flat-arched with
plain architraves (those to the ground floor eared), keystones
and shutters; the ground-floor windows have been lowered: 2
north of the entrance are French windows, while the
northernmost and 2 southernmost have triple 6/6 sashes;
first-floor windows have sashes of original design; coved
eaves cornice with rosettes; 2-span roof; ridge stack.
Left-hand return is faced with cobbles with brick dressings.
Rear, or eastern, elevation has a gabled wing to the north
faced with flint and cobbles with brick quoins and brick
dressings, French windows to the ground floor, tumbled-in
gable and one corniced dormer; the rear of the main range is
faced with cobbles with brick dressings to windows and 2
corniced dormers; on the rear elevation all sashes have frames
set almost flush with the wall, and thick glazing bars. The
wings at the back of the house create a courtyard which has,
on its south side, a 3-storey weatherboarded range under a
lean-to roof ending in a brick and flint wing.
The courtyard is paved with squares of slate, and there are 2
flights of steps at the east side, formerly leading into the
garden, formed of slates set on edge.
The south front shows the gables of the 2-span roof slightly
rearranged by Lutyens with a corniced dormer between them,
this part being faced with render and smooth render, and a
lower range to the east; flat-roofed extension south of the
2-span gables,and various single-storey linked outbuildings.
INTERIOR: inside the house, such few features as remain appear
to date from Lutyens' work: round arch to vestibule with
pilasters, archivolt, keystone, panelled spandrels and dentil
cornice; panelling on the south side of the hall and in the
southern section of the present public library; pilasters and
columns at the north-eastern end of the library; open well
stair with replacement newel, turned balusters, moulded rail
and panelled dado.
Garden walls of flint with brick coping: approx 15 metres of
wall north of piers of entrance gate, and approx 22 metres
south of the entrance gate leading into Whiteway lane; square,
corniced gate piers.
The garden wall and gate piers were listed on 20.08.71.
(The Arts Council: Lutyens (Catalogue of an exhibition):
1981-: 195; Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes:
1990-).

Listing NGR: TQ3697902503

Legacy

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Sources

Books and journals
Lutyens (catalogue of an exhibition), (1981), 195
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990)

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