The Thatch Cottage
THE THATCH COTTAGE, BLUEMANS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390571
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-2003
- List Entry Name:
- The Thatch Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE THATCH COTTAGE, BLUEMANS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390571
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-2003
- List Entry Name:
- The Thatch Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE THATCH COTTAGE, BLUEMANS 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:
- THE THATCH COTTAGE, BLUEMANS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Rother (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Westfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 79430 15685
Details
1917/0/10055
12-AUG-03
WESTFIELD
BLUEMANS LANE
The Thatch Cottage
II
Cottage. Late C17 or early C18, refenestrated in early C20. Timberframed with framing visible to east or front elevation with rendered infill, orther elevations rendered with corner posts visible. Hipped thatched roof with painted brick chimneystack to north end. Two storeys with irregular fenestration of C20 casements with leaded lights. Plan form is two bay end chimneystack house with three outshuts, northern at least not original.
EXTERIOR: Front or east elevation is of two storeys with visible timber frame of large panels including midrail and curved brace to northern outshut. Large bay to north and smaller bay to south. Two casements with leaded lights to the first floor and five to the ground floor. Off central C20 gabled wooden porch. Other elevations eash have an eyebrow dormer window in catslide roofs. Four small casement windows and central doorcase in west elevation.
INTERIOR: Open fireplace with wooden bressumer. Both ground and first floor rooms have centrally placed spine beams and floor joists, those forming the first floor ceiling possibly resited. Where visible the three principal rafters along the western wall have splay cut jowls with mortice evidence for footbraces. The north wall is weathered and appears to have originally been an external wall but is now within the northern lean-to. Both north and south two storey walls have stave holes suggesting they were originally lath and daubed. The roof is of paired rafters, pegged and tenoned at the ridge, the southern hip retaining its pegged jack collar.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490519
- 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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