Guest House To Bailiffscourt Hotel And Country Club

The following building shall be added to the list;

TQ 00 SW CLIMPING CLIMPING STREET

16/10000 Guest House to Bailiffscourt Hotel and Country Club

GV II* (star)

Guest wing to large house. 1931-35 by Amyas Phillips for Lord and Lady Moyne in C12 style, reminiscent of Boothby Pagnell. This is linked to the main house by an underground tunnel. Built of Cotswold limestone with thatched roof and stone chimneystacks. T-shaped, north front has the appearance of a late Norman 1st floor hall with double arched window and flight of external stone stairs to former arched doorcase now window. Buttresses to ground floor. South west elevation has restored C12 zigzag doorcase and a series of Norman style windows on the 1st floor. South east elevation has mixture of pebbles and stone. Interior is of equivalent quality to main house. The main bedroom has a very fine double arched braced roof and another room has a superb C15 stone chimneypiece said to have come from a monastery with decorated spandrels, now of blank shields in quatrefoils and religious emblems. Many other C16 and C17 stone fireplaces. (See Clive Aslet "The Last Country Houses" pps. 172-181. B.O.E. Sussex pps. 97-98).

Listing NGR: TQ0012600828