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Latitude: 50.9255 / 50°55'31"N
Longitude: 0.1016 / 0°6'5"E
OS Eastings: 547796
OS Northings: 116104
OS Grid: TQ477161
Mapcode National: GBR LQR.VY3
Mapcode Global: FRA C63N.FF0
Plus Code: 9F22W4G2+5J
Entry Name: Gate Piers to West of Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum
Listing Date: 7 February 2002
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1389706
English Heritage Legacy ID: 488433
ID on this website: 101389706
Location: Wealden, East Sussex, BN8
County: East Sussex
District: Wealden
Civil Parish: Little Horsted
Traditional County: Sussex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex
Church of England Parish: Framfield St Thomas a Becket
Church of England Diocese: Chichester
Tagged with: Gatepost
LITTLE HORSTED
995/31/10082
07-FEB-02
HARVEY'S LANE
(East,off)
Gate piers to west of Bentley Wildfowl
and Motor Museum
GV
II
Pair of gate piers with gate. Designed 1966, built 1967, the work of Raymond Erith for Gerald Askew. Banded vermiculated flints on Portland stone base with stone dressings and tops. Their round form was dictated by the use of flints. Urn tops. Timber gate restored to its original design for the Millennium.
Raymond Erith extended Bentley Farm for Mr and Mrs Askew between 1961 and 1971, having been commissioned in 1959. These gate piers, like all his work, were carefully conceived as a whole; the use of flint reflects the use of these materials in the building of the eighteenth century listed house. Of the gate he wrote in 1966, 'What I intended was that it should be in the "horse" period, a bit smart and spanking but on the other hand rather bucolic and therefore in an older and sounder tradition.' The gate was installed the year Bentley Farm was first opened to the public.
Source
Lucy Archer, Raymond Erith, Burford, Cygnet Books, 1985, pp.82-4
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