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Hartshorn House the Link

A Grade II* Listed Building in Rye, East Sussex

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.95 / 50°56'59"N

Longitude: 0.7314 / 0°43'53"E

OS Eastings: 591956

OS Northings: 120280

OS Grid: TQ919202

Mapcode National: GBR QXP.CQX

Mapcode Global: FRA D6FL.LSD

Plus Code: 9F22WPXJ+XH

Entry Name: Hartshorn House the Link

Listing Date: 12 October 1951

Last Amended: 8 August 1968

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1251959

English Heritage Legacy ID: 434850

ID on this website: 101251959

Location: Rye, Rother, East Sussex, TN31

County: East Sussex

District: Rother

Civil Parish: Rye

Built-Up Area: Rye

Traditional County: Sussex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex

Church of England Parish: Rye

Church of England Diocese: Chichester

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Description


1.
1578 MERMAID STREET
(North Side)

TQ 9120 1/122 12.10.51 No 31 (Hartshorn House).
8.8.68. The Link.

II" (NO 31) GV
II


2.
This was built as a private house and the name dates only from the Napoleonic
wars, when the house was used as a hospital. The front portion is a C15
timber-framed house of which many of the timbers have been renewed. The
1st floor overhangs on brackets shaped like a double volute. 3 gables
added in the C16 (one dated 1576) carried on curved coving and brackets.
Tiled roof. Modern easement windows. At the west end of the house is
a passageway through the house on the ground floor with a wrought iron
gate. The VCH says that there is a C16 wing behind and that the house
has a stone vaulted cellar, Tudor fireplaces and C18 panelling. To the
east is an C18 house which has been rebuilt in modern times and is now
used as the service wing of the Old Hospital. This has 2 storeys and 3
windows. Red brick and grey headers. Wooden cornice and tiled roof, all
renewed. 6-panel moulded door. There is another mediaeval cellar beneath
this house.

All the listed buildings in Mermaid Street form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ9195620280

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