Hampton Cottage and May Cottage

Hampton Cottage, 83, High Street, Rottingdean, BN2 7HE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1381624
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1971
List Entry Name:
Hampton Cottage and May Cottage
Statutory Address:
Hampton Cottage, 83, High Street, Rottingdean, BN2 7HE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1381624
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1971
Date of most recent amendment:
26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:
Hampton Cottage and May Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
Hampton Cottage, 83, High Street, Rottingdean, BN2 7HE
Statutory Address 2:
May Cottage, 85, High Street, Rottingdean, BN2 7HE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Hampton Cottage, 83, High Street, Rottingdean, BN2 7HE
Statutory Address:
May Cottage, 85, High Street, Rottingdean, BN2 7HE

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

District:
The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Rottingdean
National Grid Reference:
TQ 36895 02448

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 April 2026 to correct a typo in the address


TQ3602SE
577-1/62/1063

BRIGHTON
Rottingdean
HIGH STREET (west side)
No.83 Hampton Cottage and 85 May Cottage

(Formerly listed as No 83, HIGH STREET, previously listed as: Rottingdean, HIGH STREET, No.83, Hampton Cottage)

20/08/71

GV
II
Single house, possibly built as two. C18. Plaster, roof of tiles and slates. Single-storey with dormers in attic. Flat-arched entrance, and flat-arched secondary entrance to north; three segmental-arched windows with horizontal sliding sashes; three dormers; ridge stack; range to west, parallel with High Street, under a slated and hipped roof.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3689502448

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
481986
Legacy System:
LBS

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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