Wappingthorn

STEYNING HORSHAM ROAD 1. 5404 Wappingthorn TQ 11 SE 13/167 15.3.55

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2. Once an important house that later became a farmhouse and has again been altered and greatly enlarged in modern times and is now a large L-shaped house of 12 windows of which only the west end of the east-west wing is old. This is dated 1609. Red brick. Stone stringcourse. Horsham slab roof. Casement windows with stone mullions and transoms. Two storeys. Four windows. The easternmost window bay and the next but one to it project slightly. The former has a huge window rising the whole height of the 2 storeys and containing 4 tiers of 6 lights, of which only 4 lights are glazed in the bottom, next to bottom and top tiers. The latter has long and short stone quoins, sprocket eaves, a hipped roof, a cartouche in the centre and a 4 light window on each floor, the upper window having 2 tiers but only two of the lights in the lower tier are glazed. The window bay between these projections has another huge window rising the whole height of the 2 storeys containing 5 tiers of 6 lights, of which only 3 lights in the second tier from the top and 2 in the fourth and bottom tiers are glazed. The westernmost window bay has a window on each floor containing 2 tiers of 3 lights, the upper lights of the first floor window blocked. Buttress at the angle of this window bay. The porch at the other end of the old part of the house is modern, but it contains an original stone doorway with pilasters, carved spandrels, keystone, enriched frieze and projecting cornice.

Listing NGR: TQ1675813385