Gatehouse To Cuckfield Park Including Iron Railings is a Grade II* listed building in the Mid Sussex local planning authority area, England. Gatehouse.

Gatehouse To Cuckfield Park Including Iron Railings

WRENN ID
proud-truss-pine
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Mid Sussex
Country
England
Type
Gatehouse
Source
Historic England listing

Description

TQ 22 SE 3/7 10.9.51

CUCKFIELD BRIGHTON ROAD Gatehouse to Cuckfield Park including iron railings (formerlylisted as 'Gate House to Cuckfield Park)

II*

Former gatehouse. Later C16 railings early C19. Red brick in English bond with stone dressings. Comprises central 2 storey entrance archway with room above, flanked by four 3 storey octagonal turrets. 4 centred entrance, now with C19 cast iron gate with dog rail. Above is a 3-light stone mullioned window with ogee sections and hood-moulding. Eaves cornice. Turrets have fragments of stone finials. Mainly loop windows but some circular windows. The South West turret has an ogee- chaped leaden cupola with wooden finial and clock face towards house. Wooden winder staircase window (South East turret). The gatehouse is now linked to 2 sections of garden wall (items 3/6 and 3/8) by an early C19 low brick wall with iron spear railings having urn principals and 2 sets of carriage gates. (See Country Life, 15 March 1919, Pevsner Buildings of England p478 and Victoria County History Vol VII p 151).

Listing NGR: TQ2981224400

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