Hammerwood Park

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TQ 43 NW 4/43 26.11.53 5208

FOREST ROW HAMMERWOOD Hammerwood Park

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Circa 1790. One of the 2 known works of the Sussex Architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, who emigrated to America in 1795. Large sandstone ashlar mansion, now empty and the window boarded up. Consists of a centre and 2 wings. The centre which has 2 storeys and 5 windows, projects and its 3 centre window bays break forward still further with pilasters flanking the windows. String course above ground floor. Cornice above first floor and a similar smaller one above the second floor. Slate roof. Glazing bars missing. French windows on ground floor with semi-circular tympana over the 3 centre ones. The wings, which contain the library and the dining room, are set back. Two storeys and 4 windows, each. The end window bay of each projects with a tetrastyle portico on the ground floor on a podium, the columns supporting a pediment which cuts into the centre first floor window. Coade-ware plaques above the doorways. Five round-headed arches between these porticos and the centre portion of the house, of which on the west one contains a door, one a window and 3 are blind, on the east one contains a door, 2 window and 2 are blind. Venetian shutters to window, on first floor. Slate roof. The north or entrance front has heavy 3-light windows (glazing bars intact) having architraves over. Porte cochere with coupled fluted Doric column and pilaster on each side. Service wing to the north-east.

Listing NGR: TQ4422238851