Garden house at Foxhunt Manor, Heathfield and Waldron, East Sussex

Coordinates

Latitude: 50.9362 / 50°56'10"N

Longitude: 0.2036 / 0°12'12"E

OS Eastings: 554927

OS Northings: 117508

OS Grid: TQ549175

Mapcode National: GBR MS6.B8Z

Mapcode Global: FRA C69M.R40

Plus Code: 9F22W6P3+FC

Entry Name: Garden house at Foxhunt Manor

Listing Date: 14 May 2018

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1454663

ID on this website: 101454663

Location: Foxhunt Green, Wealden, East Sussex, TN21

County: East Sussex

District: Wealden

Civil Parish: Heathfield and Waldron

Traditional County: Sussex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex

Tagged with: Architectural structure

Summary

A garden house of about 1900 built for Joseph Lucas.

Description

A garden house of about 1900 built for Joseph Lucas.

MATERIALS: brick in either Flemish or stretcher bond with some terracotta decoration, wooden bracket cornice, window and door surrounds and hipped plain-tiled roof with terracotta ridge tiles.

PLAN: rectangular with central entrance and seating along rear wall.

EXTERIOR: the entrance front has a central open doorcase with two tier pilasters, the upper bulbous and partly fluted, the lower fluted flanked by openings with segmental heads. The other elevations are plain brickwork.

INTERIOR: the inside walls are lined in brick in stretcher bond with a terracotta ovolo-moulded cornice and a boarded wooden ceiling. The rear wall has a rectangular panel in three sections with floral motifs, and a fixed wooden bench on chamfered supports.

History

Garden building, built around 1900, part of the Foxhunt Manor estate. The main house, Foxhunt Manor was built in 1898 for a builder and Congregational Minister, Joseph Lucas JP.

Reasons for Listing

The garden house at Foxhunt Manor, of about 1900, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* as an unaltered garden building designed in the same style and materials as the main house.

Group value:

* as part of a group of contemporary structures of the same date and style on the Foxhunt Estate.

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