Eyecatcher 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:
- 1454662
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-2018
- List Entry Name:
- Eyecatcher 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:
- 1454662
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-2018
- List Entry Name:
- Eyecatcher 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:
- TQ5493417508
Summary
An eyecatcher erected in 1903 as one of the garden features to Foxhunt Manor, but incorporating a 1765 Gothick style church window.
Reasons for Designation
The 1903 eyecatcher at Foxhunt Manor, which incorporates a resited 1765 Gothick style church window, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* as a mid-C18 Gothick window incorporated in a late example of a rare building type;
Group value:
* it forms part of a group of contemporary structures of the same date and style at Foxhunt Manor.
History
The central feature in this structure is the 1765 Gothick style stone east window of All Saints Church Laughton designed by 'Mr Robinson' which was removed and re-erected as an 'eyecatcher' in the grounds of Foxhunt Manor in 1903. Foxhunt Manor was built in 1898 for a builder and Congregational Minister, Joseph Lucas JP.
Details
An eyecatcher erected in 1903 as one of the garden features to Foxhunt Manor, but incorporating a 1765 Gothick style church window.
MATERIALS: brick with some blocks of stone, incorporating an earlier stone church window.
PLAN: a section of walling incorporating a reused church window in the centre.
DESCRIPTION: the central part incorporates the around 1765 Early Gothick style stone arched window comprising five trefoil-headed lights with a central octofoil flanked by quatrefoils above. This is set in a brick surround with irregularly-spaced stone blocks. On one side is a brick wall with a crow-stepped parapet terminating in a brick pier; on the other a more ruinous section of brick walling with some stone coping terminating in a stone pier.
Sources
Books and journals
Antram, N, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Sussex East with Brighton and Hove, (2013), 498, 653
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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