The Former Motor House, The Croft (Adjacent To County Hall)

The Former Motor House at The Croft, adjacent to County Hall, is a purpose-built motor house constructed in 1905. This single-storey building is made of red brick and features a gabled tiled roof. The main entrance, facing west, has wooden bargeboards on the gable end and is pierced by a hipped tiled pentice that supports a triangular three-light fixed casement window. Below this, there is a triple sliding door designed for vehicle access, which includes ten panes of opaque glass at the top and plank panelling below. On the south elevation, there is a battered brick buttress topped with a sloping tiled cap, a pedestrian entrance with a plank door, and a wooden casement window.

The interior has not been inspected. The adjoining main house, known as "The Croft," was built in 1899 by architect Samuel Denman as a family home for John Henry Every, the son of the founder of the Phoenix Foundry in Lewes. The motor house was built two years later, in 1905, marking a transition from horse-drawn transport, as indicated by the curbing stones at the sides of the main entrance and a stone mounting block located a few meters northwest of the entrance, which is listed separately. This motor house is an early and externally unaltered example of its kind and is part of a group of structures around The Croft that illustrate the shift from horse transport to motor transport.