The Lodge, Foxhunt Manor

Foxhunt Manor, (formerly Convent of the Visitation), Foxhunt Green, Waldron, TN21 0RX

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Overview

A lodge, dated 1897 in Gothic style, built for Joseph Lucas of Foxhunt Manor. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1454665
Date first listed:: 14-May-2018
List Entry Name:: The Lodge, Foxhunt Manor
Statutory Address:: Foxhunt Manor, (formerly Convent of the Visitation), Foxhunt Green, Waldron, TN21 0RX

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1454665
Date first listed:: 14-May-2018
List Entry Name:: The Lodge, Foxhunt Manor
Statutory Address 1:: Foxhunt Manor, (formerly Convent of the Visitation), Foxhunt Green, Waldron, TN21 0RX

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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:: TQ5476117997

Summary

A lodge, dated 1897 in Gothic style, built for Joseph Lucas of Foxhunt Manor.

Reasons for Designation

The Lodge, Foxhunt Manor, an entrance lodge to the main house, dated 1897, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* in the same distinctive Jacobean style and materials as the main house, with terracotta detailing.

Group value:

* it forms part of a group of contemporary structures of the same date and style on the Foxhunt Estate.

History

The Lodge is dated 1897 and was built as the lodge to Foxhunt Manor. Foxhunt Manor was completed in 1898 for a builder and Congregational Minister, Joseph Lucas JP. The lodge may be by the same designer as the main house, possibly Frederick Reeve, a land agent from Halland.

Details

A lodge, dated 1897 in Gothic style, built for Joseph Lucas of Foxhunt Manor.

MATERIALS: brick with some tile-hanging to the gables, a plain-tiled roof interspersed with groups of five courses of curved tiles, terracotta ridge tiles, finials and plaque, wooden bargeboards and windows and brick chimneystacks.

PLAN: single-storeyed forming an irregular square with projections to the west, north and east.

EXTERIOR: the west or entrance front is L-shaped with a projecting gable at the south end with a terracotta plaque dated 1897 depicting a fox and three trees. There is a tiled weather hood supported on wooden brackets over the main entrance and a gable over the northern window.

The north side facing the road has a large projecting gable at the west end with a cambered casement and a three-light casement to the east.

INTERIOR: not inspected (2018).

Sources

None.

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.