The Wattle House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1994. Storage house. 2 related planning applications.
The Wattle House
- WRENN ID
- secret-forge-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1994
- Type
- Storage house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The following building shall be added to the list;
TQ 1208 FINDON NEPCOTE GREEN Nepcote
23/10044 The Wattle House
II
Wattle storage house. Built between 1792 and 1803, probably by George Holford who got permission from the lord of Findon Manor in 1790 to hold an annual sheep fair at Nepcote Green. This building was designed to store the wattles. Built of flint with red brick dressings. Slate roof with 4 brick stacks. Two to three storeys; 3 windows. Cambered window openings, boarded at time of survey. Horseshoe-arched entrances to ground floor with double doors. A unique survival in a national context, one of a very small number of buildings which manifest the importance of sheep to the economy of the southern downlands. Hurdles for fairs were normally stored in the open, such as at Priddy in Somerset where they have become a permanent fixture in the centre of the green. [See VCH Sussex p204, Sussex County Magazine, 1927.]
Listing NGR: TQ1267008422
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