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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Official list entry

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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

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.