Description

In the entry for
TQ 43 NW
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EAST GRINSTEAD
Luxfords Lane
Horseshoe Farmhouse

the address and description shall be amended as follows

TQ 43 NW

LUXFORD LANE
Horseshoe Farmhouse including Bothy Cottage

II

House, formerly farmhouse with attached brewhouse with sleeping accommodation
above. Farmhouse is early C17 2-bay lobby entrance house with rear wing added
in late C18. North range is timber framed. Exterior clad in red brick to ground
floor in Flemish bond with tile hung 1st floor. Old tiled roof with cruciform
shaped brick chimneystack to north range and end chimneystacks to south range.
2 storeys and attics, 3 windows. South front has modillion cornice between floors
and plinth. 3 C19 casements. Central C20 door with rectangular fanlight. North
front has 3 C20 leaded light windows to ground floor. Interior of older range
has kitchen with 2 inch chamfered beam with lambs tongue stop and fine early C17
3 plank oak door. Lounge has similar 2 inch chamfered spine beam with lambs
tongue stop, brick paved floor and large wooden bressumer with recess for bracket
holding cooling apparatus. Lounge has C18 open fireplace with row of wooden hooks
above for holding guns. Half winder staircase with plank door. 1st floor has
bedrooms with lamb's tongue stops, and gunstock jowled posts. Attic floor has
through purlin and queenpost roof with collar beam cut through for headroom.
2 studded oak doors. Attached to the farmhouse by a late C18 brick passageway
which is open-fronted supported on square chamfered wooden piers is Bothy Cottage
which appears to be an early C17 brewhouse with sleeping accommodation and storage
above,altered and extended in the late C18 when a wash-house was added. Timber-
framed building of 1½ bays. Exterior clad in red brick in Sussex bond, the 1st
floor tile hung. Tiled roof with cemented chimneystack. Modillion cornice.
East front has 2 late C18 pegged architraves with wooden leaded light windows
and a C20 door in similar style. The late C18 extension to north has 1 late C18
leaded light window and plank door. Ground floor has open fireplace with large wooden
bressumer and blocked-in bread oven opening and spine beam with run out stops,
1st floor has jowled posts and diagonal tension braces to the wall frame. Angled
queen strut roof with through purlins and rough rafters with ridge-piece added
in the late C18.

1.
1068
TQ 43 NW
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LUXFORDS LANE
Horseshoe Farmhouse

II

2.
2 storey double fronted farmhouse. Timber framed, but exterior refaced in
brick C19. Partly tile hung. Casements. Central stack. Tile roof.

Listing NGR: TQ4054436113

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26541161

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