The Court Hall Town Museum is a Grade I listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. A C14 Museum, town hall. 1 related planning application.
The Court Hall Town Museum
- WRENN ID
- weathered-eave-thistle
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1961
- Type
- Museum, town hall
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 9023-9123 ICKLESHAM HIGH STREET, WINCHELSEA (north side)
50/29 The Court Hall and Town Museum. 3.8.61 (Formerly listed as The Court Hall, or Town Hall)
GV I
Formerly a scheduled monument. C14 building, altered in the C15 and since. Two storeys. Three windows. Stone rubble. Tiled roof. Modern obtusely-pointed two-light windows. Stone doorway. Blocked doorway at west end. Three niches over, two pointed, one square-headed, with the remains of a cartouche. Four corbel brackets. Gable end east and west. The west one has the blocked head of an entrance to the basement. The east one has a window splayed outwards with three iron grilles, also a C13 doorway reset. C15 crown-post inside. The building was used as the Town Hall from 1557 onwards and the Mayor of Winchelsea is still elected there annually. The first floor is used as a museum.
Listing NGR: TQ9045217419
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