Description

In the entry for:-
SU 37SE GREAT SHEFFORD EAST SHEFFORD

10/6 East Shefford House

II

The entry shall be amended to read:-
GREAT SHEFFORD
SU37SE EAST SHEFFORD
15-0/10/6 East Shefford House

11/07/83

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House. C17-18, extended in circa 1850-60. Rendered timber-frame with gable-ended tile
roofs at rear and rendered brick with hipped slate roof at front with deep bracketed eaves
cornice. Rendered brick stacks, the front with bracketed cornices. PLAN: 2-room plan front
range with large central stairhall, added to front of earlier, C17-18 timber-framed rear ranges.
Italianate style front range.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 2:1:2 bay south west front. 4-pane sashes, the ground
floor with pilastered architraves, bracketed cills and cornices on consoles with moulded
stringcourse at this level; smaller first floor windows, the centre tripartite, in moulded
architraves with bracketed cills. Central doorway with moulded elliptical arch, fanlight and
double-doors with round-headed panes; large porch with pilasters, entablature and elliptical
arch. Similar windows in end walls, the right [SE] end has canted bay. The gabled ranges at
the rear have various sash and casement windows and at the back a single-storey outshut.
INTERIOR: The front range has elaborately moulded plaster ceiling conices and roses and
most of the original joinery survive, including panelled doors and a large open-well,
open-string staircase with shaped tread-ends, moulded balusters and newels with pendants
and a moulded and wreathed mahogany handrail. Ranges at rear have exposed ceiling beams
and joists and ground and first floor rooms with some earlier linenfold panelling, said to have
come from Hug Ditch Court. The roofs of the back ranges have principals with cambered
collars and tenoned butt purlins; some of the timbers appear to be re-used material.

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SU 37SE GREAT SHEFFORD EAST SHEFFORD

10/6 East Shefford House

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Large House. Part C17 and 18 but mainly early C19. Hipped slate roof with eaves
cornice. Stucco on brick walls. Rectangular C19 block at front with irregular
earlier wing at right angles to rear. 2 storey. 5 bays of vertical sliding sash
windows with raised architraves and moulded cornices on ground floor. Large
central portico with 3 light sash above.

Listing NGR: SU3900874761

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26599469

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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