LUGHURST

LUGHURST, FITTLEWORTH ROAD

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Overview

Timber-framed house, mid-late C16 with a slightly later range dating to the mid-C17 at the latest, with later alterations. The modern glazed lean-to on the front elevation is not of special interest. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393432
Date first listed:: 12-Aug-2009
List Entry Name:: LUGHURST
Statutory Address:: LUGHURST, FITTLEWORTH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393432
Date first listed:: 12-Aug-2009
List Entry Name:: LUGHURST
Statutory Address 1:: LUGHURST, FITTLEWORTH ROAD

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:: LUGHURST, FITTLEWORTH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: West Sussex
District:: Chichester (District Authority)
Parish:: Wisborough Green
National Grid Reference:: TQ 03572 23597

Reasons for Designation

Lughurst is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * It dates to the mid-late C16, with an addition of the early-mid C17 * It has a surviving timber box-frame with curved braces, roof, and two substantial end stacks.

Details

WISBOROUGH GREEN

427/0/10038 FITTLEWORTH ROAD 12-AUG-09 Lughurst

II Timber-framed house, mid-late C16 with a slightly later range dating to the mid-C17 at the latest, with later alterations. The modern glazed lean-to on the front elevation is not of special interest.

EXTERIOR: The oldest part of the building is a two-bay box-framed range aligned north-south with curved braces and later brick nogging in stretcher bond on a brick plinth. The house probably originally had a left-central door, but the entrance is now further to the south. This may have originally been a window, given the mid-rail evident here; there are also mid-rails to the northernmost bay. This elevation has only one window on its upper floor. The end wall to the north is random rubble with a large end stack, beyond which is a later (probably Victorian) timber lean-to. The southern return is a slightly later extension, also timber-framed, and so probably no later than the mid-C17. Externally, this part of the frame is concealed beneath brick cladding in Flemish bond to the ground floor (this appears early C18 or early C19 in date) and C20 board and timber studs above, where old photographs of the house show there was originally tile-hanging. This range has a brick end wall and stack. The rear of the building has been clad in brick, in Flemish bond to the rear of the later range, the rest in stretcher bond and probably inserted at the same time as the nogging to the main elevation was altered, perhaps the C19. It has also been painted. The roof is pitched, with a hip at the corner of the L, and covered in tiles.

INTERIOR: there is an open fireplace with timber bressumer and mantle shelf in the main room to the north. Inside the stack is a simply-carved stone corbel and there is a built-in cupboard to the right of the hearth. To the south is a smaller room, the access between the two via a segmental-arched door with chamfered posts and stops. The room to the rear (west) has a brick stack with timber bressumer. The exposed beams have chamfers and carved stops and are wooden pegged. Upstairs, most of the wall and partition, including girding beams, and arch braces, is exposed. The roof is partly concealed except for the tie beams and the lower portions of a central post (either a crown or king-post, most likely the former in West Sussex) but presumed intact. The upper portion of the brick stack is visible in the corner of the upper floor rear room, along with a now blocked-up fireplace which used this flue.

HISTORY: A will of a Thomas Strudwicke dated 29 November 1599 refers to Lughurst and the timber-frame of part of the current house is consistent with a mid-late C16 date. Lughurst would originally have been a two-bay house, but an additional range was added to the rear at a slightly later date and it is now L-shaped. A glazed lean-to on the front of the house is post-WWII, but the extension on the north wall of the house is was present by 1875 when it was mapped.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: Lughurst is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * it dates to the mid-late C16, with an addition of the early-mid C17 * it has a surviving timber box-frame with curved braces, roof, and two substantial end stacks.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 505928
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.