Cast iron boundary post on Quarry Hill
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1416728
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-2013
- List Entry Name:
- Cast iron boundary post on Quarry Hill
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1416728
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-2013
- List Entry Name:
- Cast iron boundary post on Quarry Hill
- Location Description:
- West side of Quarry Hill set into the boundary wall of former Uplands School, St Leonards
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Hastings (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ7981808919
Summary
Boundary post, probably dating from c1830.
Reasons for Designation
The cast iron boundary post On Quarry Hill, St Leonards, probably dating from c1830 and marking the boundary of James and Decimus Burtons’ speculative seaside development is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Date: as a relatively early example of a cast iron boundary post;
* Rarity: early cast iron boundary posts are now rare;
* Location: the post appears from historic map evidence to be in its original location;
* Historic interest: as a marker for the parish boundary of St Leonards, the up-market, speculative seaside resort built by James Burton and his son, Decimus Burton, between 1828 and the 1850s;
* Group value: part of a group of five surviving markers, out of the eleven originally erected.
History
St Leonards was established as a speculative seaside development by the architect and builder, James Burton (1761-1837). Burton was one of the most prominent Georgian builders working in London, was responsible for much of the development of Bloomsbury and had worked with John Nash at Regents Park. In 1827 Burton negotiated the purchase of a strip of coastal land to the west of Hastings for the new town. Building work began in 1828 and by 1832 most of the public buildings, terraces and villas were complete. In 1850 a second phase of development was started by his son, the architect Decimus Burton (1800-81).
The land was marked by eleven cast iron boundary posts of which five remain in situ.
Details
Cast iron boundary post. Standing approximately 600mm high and 160mm square with a pyramidal cap. The post is marked, below the cap and above a roll moulding, in raised lettering, ‘HLB’ (Hastings Liberty) on one face and ‘StL’ (St Leonards) on the opposing face. The lettering is no longer legible on the visible face.
The post is set into a later stone boundary wall. The wall is not of special interest and is excluded from the listing.
Sources
Websites
The Burton's St Leonard Society - History, accessed from http://www.burtonsstleonardssociety.co.uk/history_-_the_burtons.html
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
The listed building(s) is shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’), structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building (save those coloured blue on the map) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.
Map
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