Stone House

WARBLETON RUSHLAKE GREEN VILLAGE 1. 5208

TQ 6218 32/675 Stone House 13.10.52 II*

1. This is a T-shaped building of several periods. The east wing is the oldest portion. Its northern part is early C16, though the exterior has been altered in the C18 and C19 and the north front is now faced with red brick and grey headers on the ground floor and tile-hung above. Gable at its west end. Gabled projection in the centre forming a porch, with room over. C18 door of 8 fielded panels in porch. Some casement windows. Some sash windows with glazing bars intact. The southern part of the east wing is early C17 and faced with ashlar. Two storeys and attic. Four windows. Cornice above each floor. Tiled roof. Three gables with kneelers, coping and a smaller gable without coping or kneelers at each end, the easternmost gable being probably older than the remainder and blind. Casement windows with stone mullions, diamond-shaped leaded panes, old green glass and original catches. Stone 4-centred doorway and another tall blocked doorway further west. The westernmost window bay and gable has been refronted with red vitreous brick in the C18 and has a bay with a 3-light sash window on the ground floor. The original house extended further west but was burned down. The present west wing which forms a T portion to the east wing, was built by H Harcourt in 1778 and has this date and the initials H. H. and M. H. on it on date stones beneath 2 of the ground floor windows. The west front has 2 storeys and 9 windows and is faced with grey headers on an ashlar base with window dressings, quoins and vertical strips of red brick. Stringcourse of red brick and grey headers. Wooden modillion eaves cornice. Tiled roof. Bay of 3 windows on each floor at each end of the front, the windows in the south bay being dummies and the rooms in it being lit from the south front. Central doorway at the head of 5 wide steps with iron handrail having tall engaged Doric columns on plinths, triglyph frieze, pediment, semi-circular fanight and double doors of 8 moulded and fielded panels. Glazing bars intact except in the ground floor windows on each side of the doorway which now have stained glass. The north and south fronts of this wing are of red brick and grey headers alternately and have 3 windows each. The east wing contains C17 panelling and a staircase of 1620 circa with ball finials to the newels. The west wing has a fine staircase of a single flight to the half-landing, there branching into 2. Articles in the Sussex County Magazine, Volume 8, page 280.

Listing NGR: TQ6291718512