Description

TQ 9023-9123 ICKLESHAM HIGH STREET, WINCHELSEA
(north side)

50/29 The Court Hall and Town
Museum.
3.8.61 (Formerly listed as The
Court Hall, or Town Hall)

GV I

Formerly a scheduled monument. C14 building, altered in the C15 and since. Two
storeys. Three windows. Stone rubble. Tiled roof. Modern obtusely-pointed
two-light windows. Stone doorway. Blocked doorway at west end. Three niches
over, two pointed, one square-headed, with the remains of a cartouche. Four
corbel brackets. Gable end east and west. The west one has the blocked head
of an entrance to the basement. The east one has a window splayed outwards with
three iron grilles, also a C13 doorway reset. C15 crown-post inside. The building
was used as the Town Hall from 1557 onwards and the Mayor of Winchelsea is still
elected there annually. The first floor is used as a museum.

Listing NGR: TQ9045217419

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Winchelsea Court Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17535114

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014