Gate Piers to West of Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum
GATE PIERS TO WEST OF BENTLEY WILDFOWL AND MOTOR MUSEUM, HARVEY'S LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389706
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Gate Piers to West of Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum
- Statutory Address:
- GATE PIERS TO WEST OF BENTLEY WILDFOWL AND MOTOR MUSEUM, HARVEY'S LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389706
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Gate Piers to West of Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATE PIERS TO WEST OF BENTLEY WILDFOWL AND MOTOR MUSEUM, HARVEY'S LANE
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:
- GATE PIERS TO WEST OF BENTLEY WILDFOWL AND MOTOR MUSEUM, HARVEY'S LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Wealden (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Horsted
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ4779616104
Details
LITTLE HORSTED
995/31/10082
07-FEB-02
HARVEY'S LANE
(East,off)
Gate piers to west of Bentley Wildfowl
and Motor Museum
GV
II
Pair of gate piers with gate. Designed 1966, built 1967, the work of Raymond Erith for Gerald Askew. Banded vermiculated flints on Portland stone base with stone dressings and tops. Their round form was dictated by the use of flints. Urn tops. Timber gate restored to its original design for the Millennium.
Raymond Erith extended Bentley Farm for Mr and Mrs Askew between 1961 and 1971, having been commissioned in 1959. These gate piers, like all his work, were carefully conceived as a whole; the use of flint reflects the use of these materials in the building of the eighteenth century listed house. Of the gate he wrote in 1966, 'What I intended was that it should be in the "horse" period, a bit smart and spanking but on the other hand rather bucolic and therefore in an older and sounder tradition.' The gate was installed the year Bentley Farm was first opened to the public.
Source
Lucy Archer, Raymond Erith, Burford, Cygnet Books, 1985, pp.82-4
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488433
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Archer, L, Raymond Erith Architect , (1985), 82-4
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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