Walled garden at Foxhunt Manor
Foxhunt Manor, (formerly Convent of the Visitation), Foxhunt Green, Waldron, TN21 0RX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1454660
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-2018
- List Entry Name:
- Walled garden at Foxhunt Manor
- Statutory Address:
- Foxhunt Manor, (formerly Convent of the Visitation), Foxhunt Green, Waldron, TN21 0RX
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1454660
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-2018
- List Entry Name:
- Walled garden at Foxhunt Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- Foxhunt Manor, (formerly Convent of the Visitation), Foxhunt Green, Waldron, TN21 0RX
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:
- Foxhunt Manor, (formerly Convent of the Visitation), Foxhunt Green, Waldron, TN21 0RX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Wealden (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Heathfield and Waldron
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ5499217590
Summary
A walled garden of around 1900 for Joseph Lucas in Jacobean style.
Reasons for Designation
The brick walled garden at Foxhunt Manor, built around 1900, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* the walls are of the same date and style as the main house and include piers and buttresses and an elaborate gateway with a terracotta panel and iron gates;
Group value:
* part of a group of contemporary structures all built in matching style for the estate.
History
A walled garden to Foxhunt Manor. Foxhunt Manor was built around 1900 for a builder and Congregational Minister, Joseph Lucas JP.
Details
A walled garden of around 1900 for Joseph Lucas in Jacobean style.
MATERIALS: brick in Flemish bond with some stone details and iron gates.
PLAN: rectangular with the main entrance on west side.
DETAILS: the west side has the main entrance which comprises a pedimented gable with a floral terracotta plaque and a round-headed entrance below with a pair of decorative cast iron gates. This is flanked by square piers with moulded bracket cornices and stepped buttresses. The attached wall is about eight feet high with brick coping and has brick piers with stone ball finials at intervals and some stepped buttresses.
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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