The Court Hall; Town Museum Icklesham, England

Listed Building Data

The Court Hall; Town Museum 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
1234513
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
I
Date Listed
3 August 1961
Name
THE COURT HALL TOWN MUSEUM
Location
THE COURT HALL, HIGH STREETTOWN MUSEUM, HIGH STREET
Parish
Icklesham
District
Rother
County
East Sussex
Grid Reference
TQ 90451 17424
Easting
590450.6390
Northing
117423.8990

Listed Building Description

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TQ 9023-9123 ICKLESHAM HIGH STREET, WINCHELSEA (north side)

50/29 The Court Hall and Town Museum. 3.8.61 (Formerly listed as The Court Hall, or Town Hall)

GV I

Scheduled Ancient Monument. C14 building, altered in the C15 and since. Two storeys. Three windows. Stone rubble. Tiled roof. Modern obtusely-pointed two-light windows. Stone doorway. Blocked doorway at west end. Three niches over, two pointed, one square-headed, with the remains of a cartouche. Four corbel brackets. Gable end east and west. The west one has the blocked head of an entrance to the basement. The east one has a window splayed outwards with three iron grilles, also a C13 doorway reset. C15 crown-post inside. The building was used as the Town Hall from 1557 onwards and the Mayor of Winchelsea is still elected there annually. The first floor is used as a museum.

Listing NGR: TQ9045217419