Moulsecoomb Place

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3206NE LEWES ROAD
577-1/18/384 (North West side)
20/08/71 Moulsecoomb Place
(Formerly Listed as:
LEWES ROAD
Moulsecoomb Place)
(Formerly Listed as:
LEWES ROAD
Cottage behind Moulsecoomb Place)

GV II

Detached house, now offices and social club. 1790,
incorporating part of a late-medieval building, altered 1913.
The principal front faces east and dates from 1790 when the
house was extensively altered for Benjamin Tillstone; south
wing of 1913.
EXTERIOR: the 1790/1913 building is described first: yellow
brick set in Flemish bond to 1790 part of east front, brown
brick with dressings of gauged yellow brick to north front,
yellow brick in stretcher bond to 1913 wing; roof of slate.
2 storeys; the 1790 part of 7-window range, the 1913 of 2
windows. The 1790 part has a pedimented centre of 3-window
range; ground-floor windows cambered-arched except outer ones
which have a Palladian window under a round arch in the Adam
manner; first-floor windows all flat-arched; the glazing
probably of c1900 and consists of casement with margin-lights;
stone cornice with mutules, pediment whose shape is echoed in
the raised brickwork of the tympanum,and parapet; hipped roof
with rebuilt end stacks, and a further stack on the front
slope of the hip.
The 1913 wing is similarly detailed on east front, with a
single-storey, 2-window bay with cornice and parapet. The
left-hand return has 2 round-arched openings to ground floor
with heads of gauged yellow brick, the right-hand one now an
entrance.
The right-hand return has a 2-storey segmental bay with 3
windows to each floor, storey band and cornice continued from
east front with parapet. Approx 40 metres of flint wall with
brick dressings runs from the south-west corner of the 1913
wing southwards.
INTERIOR: staircase with curtail step, cast-iron balusters of
early Gothic Revival design, wreathed mahogany handrail, and
open, arcaded string; the arcading is the section of the
curved and stepped underside of the staircase which continues
under the first-floor landing; dado rail and moulded cornice
to staircase hall.
All the rooms off the staircase hall have mahogany 6-panelled
doors, the panels decorated with Greek Revival incised
ornament; and the room facing the bottom of the stairs has a
more elaborate architrave, also of Greek Revival character;
the ceiling either end of the staircase has quadripartite
vaulting.
The middle room on the east front of the 1790 part has a white
marble fireplace of neo-Classical design.
The ground-floor room in the 1913 wing has a shallow bay to
the south with door and windows framed by an architrave and
the whole flanked by Ionic columns in antis; facing the bay is
an ornate Jacobean-style fireplace. The date 1913 is recorded
in stained glass over the south door.
REAR WING: attached to the rear wing of the 1790s house is a
timber-framed building said to have been part of a larger
house of late medieval date. Brick, flint and plaster to
ground floor, timber-framing above, roof of tiles. Flat-arched
entrance more or less centrally in west front with outshut to
left of it; the first floor projects on a bressumer which is
only evident to right of the outshut, and the framing consists
of close studding and tension braces; 2 small windows with
sliding 8/8 sashes; hipped roof; extension to right under
catslide roof; left-hand return rebuilt in brick. This
building forms part of the bar of the Moulsecoomb Social Club
and there are no interior features of interest.
The timber-framed building to the rear was previously listed
as Cottage behind Moulsecoomb Place on 13/10/52.
To the south, and connected to the rear of the 1790's building
by a bridge of C19 date, is a barn. The flint extension is an
older timber-framed aisled barn which orginates from the C16
or C17 century, but was altered and rebuilt in the C18 when
the outer walls were probably rebuilt n flint. The larger C19
"barn" is a later construction, which resulted in the
demolition of part ofthe south end of the earlier aisled barn.
It appears to have been used as a dairy and grain store.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).




Listing NGR: TQ3264406912

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Sources

Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990)

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