Wall On The East Side Of Church Hill, Returned Along Meeching Rise

This is a wall located on the east side of Church Hill in Newhaven, which dates from the 18th and 19th centuries and was repaired in the 20th century. It is constructed from unknapped flint, with some brick quoins and coping, and has repairs made in brick and cement. The wall stands about 2 meters high and features an attached cast-iron plaque in a figure-of-eight shape, inscribed with the raised lettering 'FP/ft/14'. At the northern end, there is a raking buttress and stepped brick coping, along with a cement plinth to the left of the entrance to Meeching House, which is not included in this listing.

The wall continues to the right with 20-centimeter high curved brick buttresses leading to the plinth and then returns along Meeching Rise. Here, the wall has buttresses and is pierced by openings leading to Moonrakers and Applegarth, which are not included. It also features tile offsets and hump-backed cement and pebble coping. There is an unidentified blocked-up opening in the wall where it ends opposite the entrance to the Church of St Michael and All Angels. This wall was part of the boundary of the 16th-century Meeching Place estate, which was given to the Convent of St Mary in 1895; the house has since been demolished, and the convent has relocated. The wall is included for its group value.