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Leasam House School

A Grade II Listed Building in Rye Foreign, East Sussex

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.9605 / 50°57'37"N

Longitude: 0.7182 / 0°43'5"E

OS Eastings: 590980

OS Northings: 121419

OS Grid: TQ909214

Mapcode National: GBR QXH.NDR

Mapcode Global: FRA D6DK.TW7

Plus Code: 9F22XP69+67

Entry Name: Leasam House School

Listing Date: 3 August 1961

Last Amended: 13 May 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1217594

English Heritage Legacy ID: 412751

ID on this website: 101217594

Location: Rother, East Sussex, TN31

County: East Sussex

District: Rother

Civil Parish: Rye Foreign

Traditional County: Sussex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex

Church of England Parish: Rye

Church of England Diocese: Chichester

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Description


In the entry for
16/1
3.8.61

RYE DOREIGN
LEASAM LANE
Leasam House School
(formerly listed as Leasam House, Playden)

I

The grade shall be amended to read as II.

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TQ 92 SW
16/1
3.8.61

RYE FOREIGN
LEASAM LANE
Leasam House School
(Formerly listed as Leasam House, Playden)

I

Fine mansion built by Jeremiah Curteis between 1798 and 1806. The main front
faces South. Three storeys. Seven windows. Red brick with painted quoins
and stringcourse above the first floor. Balustraded parapet with panels
of red brick. The 3 centre window bays project slightly with similar quoins
edging them and a modillion pediment in the second floor containing a lunette
window. Terracotta swags between the first floor windows. Ionic hexastyle
portico on the ground floor with balustraded parapet over. Doorway with
rectangular fanlight. Keystones over ground floor windows. Glazing bars
intact. The North or entrance front has a doorway with engaged columns,
a curved pediment, enriched frieze, semi-circular fanlight and door of 6
fielded panels. The East front has three windows, the outer ones being tri-
partite, those on the second floor being tripartite lunette windows. Later
service wing added to the North West.

Listing NGR: TQ9098021419

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