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Latitude: 50.9248 / 50°55'29"N
Longitude: 0.7085 / 0°42'30"E
OS Eastings: 590451
OS Northings: 117424
OS Grid: TQ904174
Mapcode National: GBR QXV.ZYB
Mapcode Global: FRA D6CN.PVG
Plus Code: 9F22WPF5+WC
Entry Name: The Court Hall Town Museum
Listing Date: 3 August 1961
Last Amended: 13 May 1987
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1234513
English Heritage Legacy ID: 410284
Also known as: Winchelsea Museum
ID on this website: 101234513
Location: Winchelsea, Rother, East Sussex, TN36
County: East Sussex
District: Rother
Civil Parish: Icklesham
Built-Up Area: Winchelsea
Traditional County: Sussex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex
Church of England Parish: Winchelsea
Church of England Diocese: Chichester
Tagged with: Museum building Municipal office building
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
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