5, 6, 7 And 8, Landgate Square

Nos 5, 6, 7, and 8 Landgate Square is a row of cottages that were originally one house, built in the late 16th century or early 17th century. The building was re-roofed and converted into cottages in the 18th century and restored in the 20th century. It is faced with 20th-century red brick, and part of the rear elevation of No. 8 is weatherboarded. The cottages feature a steeply pitched tiled roof with one central chimney stack and one end stack. They are two storeys tall with attics, comprising five windows, including four 18th-century hipped dormers with casement windows. The other windows are 20th-century casements set in cambered architraves on the ground floor, which also has three cambered doorcases.

Internally, No. 5 retains a late 16th-century or early 17th-century ground floor ceiling with a chamfered spine beam and joists featuring lambs tongue stops. No. 7 has an early 17th-century type spine beam with a chamfer and lambs tongue stop, although its roof is from the 18th century. No. 8 originally had a barn projecting forward in front of it, and the end part has 18th-century framing with diagonal tension braces. It also contains an 18th-century fireplace and an early 19th-century cast iron basket grate. The interior features a two-panelled door and some panelling with butterfly hinges, as well as an angled queen strut roof. The second floor has a lobe 18th-century or early 19th-century winder staircase, and some floorboards from the 16th or 17th century remain. This building is depicted in a drawing of Rye by Sir Anthony Van Dyck.