Battle Abbey School Battle, England
Listed Building Data
Battle Abbey School has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1044211
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 3 August 1961
- Name
- BATTLE ABBEY SCHOOL
- Location
- BATTLE ABBEY SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
- Parish
- Battle
- District
- Rother
- County
- East Sussex
- Grid Reference
- TQ 74901 15694
- Easting
- 574900.7450
- Northing
- 115694.1013
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
TQ 7415-7515 BATTLE HIGH STREET (south west side) 41/1B 3.8.61 Battle Abbey School
GV I
The mansion was built by the Webster family in 1857. Architect Henry Clutton. But it incorporates part of the medieval buildings of the Abbey, ie the west wall of the cloisters and parts of the frater and of the Abbot's lodgings. These are C13-C14. Stone. They are visible at the east side of the building. On the ground floor are nine pointed arches in early Perpendicular style with tracery now filled in. These were the west wall of the cloisters. At the south end is another medieval portion which is taller than the rest of the building. The remainder dates from 1857. Three storeys and modern attic. Thirteen windows and four dormers in all. Stone rubble, part of the upper storeys rendered. Castellated parapet. Modern tiled roof. Casement windows. Two stepped gables above the cloister arches. The west front dates largely from the C19.
Listing NGR: TQ7490915704
