Smugglers Cottage
SMUGGLERS COTTAGE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389634
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Smugglers Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SMUGGLERS COTTAGE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389634
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Smugglers Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SMUGGLERS COTTAGE, CHURCH 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:
- SMUGGLERS COTTAGE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Horsham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Steyning
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 17729 11347
Details
STEYNING
957/0/10029 CHURCH STREET
10-JAN-02 Smugglers Cottage
GV II
House. C16, C18 and refurbished c1927. Timberframed, the two northern bays with exposed C16framing with curved tension braces and plastered infill, underbuilt in in the C18 in flint, with flint east gable with remains of lacing courses, C19 brown brick in Sussex bond to north west, late C18 brick in English bond to south east gable and south west ground floor and C20 tile-hanging to south west. Gables and dormers have C20 weatherboarding. C20 tiled roof, replacing thatch, with brick chimneystack to eastern gable and external roughcast and brick chimneystack to south west. One storey and attics, irregular fenestration, mainly C20 windows with metal casements but eastern gable preserves small C18 leaded light window which was used to warn smugglers by the river that excise men were patrolling. Plan is hard to read but western part is separately framed from the eastern part and appears to be the remaining bay of an earlier building with a C16 addition to the west, both altered in the C18.
INTERIOR: Western end has a chamfered beam with triangular stops and ceiling beams, open fireplace with wooden bressumer, three spice alcoves, blocked arch to former breadoven and partition wall to central bay which has diagonal braces. The central bay retains some ceiling beams after the insertion of the C20 staircase. The eastern bay has an C18 partition, C18 beam with one inch chamfer and open fireplace with wooden bressumer. The first floor has an C18 partition and rough hewn beam. Roof has rafters without ridgepiece, some of which are roughhewn and probably of C18 date with some possible reused smoke-blackened rafters.
HISTORY: Deeds go back as far as 1780. When the thatch was removed earlier in the C20 an old rapier was found thrust up the eaves.
[ H M and U E Lacey "The Timber-framed Buildings of Steyning." 1974. P171.]
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488324
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lacey, HM, The Timber-framed Buildings of Steyning, (1974), 171
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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