Description

TQ 7818-7918 SEDLESCOMBE THE STREET
(west side)

43/7 Nos 1 - 5 (consecutive)
Manor Cottages
3.8.61 (Formerly listed under
Sedlescombe Street)

GV I

This is one of the finest timber-framed buildings in Sussex, of Kentish quality.
T-shaped house, now 5 dwellings. Fine timber-framed building. The centre projection
and the wing to the North C15 and close-studded. The projection has its first
floor oversailing on a moulded bressummer and brackets. On first floor, oriel
window of 2 tiers of 6 lights, the end lights splayed, with wooden mullions
and transom, diamond-shaped or square leaded panels and the date 1611 over the
window. On each side of this oriel are 2 small fixed original windows with
old green glass. Above the projection is a gable oversailing on a carved bressummer
with an attic window containing old green glass. The North wing has a bay on
both floors with ornamental timbering between the storeys and a small gable
over with carved bargeboards and pendant. The South wing is a C16 addition,
the first floor partly tile-hung, the ground floor of its South wall rebuilt
in red brick. Tiled roof. Casement windows with diamond-shaped or small square
leaded panes. Two storeys. Six windows.

Listing NGR: TQ7806618038

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535206

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)