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The Thatched House, Pinewoods

2026-03-07T13:32:27Z

EdmundB: added more Sainsbury family history

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|image=[[File:The Thatched House, Pinewoods, Bexhill.jpg|thumb|class=pageimage]]
|date=early 1930s
|architect=unknown
|builder=H.R. Farnfield
|use=Residential
|osmid=w491764777
|lat=50.84544|lng=0.44428
}}

Mr. John Benjamin Sainsbury, the Chairman of the well-known supermarket chain between 1928 and 1956, commissioned this house to be built for his retirement. In reality JB Sainsbury never actually retired, remaining the company chairman until his death, although he passed many responsibilites down to his two sons Alan and Robert in 1938 as joint general managers of the company. From an early age John Betjamin was trained to take-over the company by his father John James who founded the Sainsbury retail dynasty in 1869. John Betjamin Sainsbury joined the board of the company in 1915.

The house and an accompanying cottage (now The Lodge, Collington Rise) were built for him in the early 1930s by the builder H.R. Farnfield. The contract for the house was for £17,000, which was noted as a significant sum for a single-house contract at that time. Mr. Sainsbury spent an additional £1,000 on landscaping. This included converting an existing footpath into a small road lined on both sides with rhododendrons.

His head gardener, Mr. Osbourne, lived in the cottage in the grounds (demolition of this cottage was proposed in 2015 to make way for a new development of a block of six flats but this was refused by Rother DC), and he also employed a chauffeur, Bill Leaory.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/bexhillonsea-beginning-people-district-1983/page/31/ Bexhill-on-Sea: It's Beginning, the People & District by H. G. Carey (1983)]</ref>

Following the death of Mr Sainsbury in 1956 the house was converted into five flats with over a dozen houses built in the former very extensive gardens (all granted planning permission in 1956-57), but it retains many of its external features.

This is apparently one of only three thatched houses in Bexhill (the former gardener's cottage, now The Lodge, is the second). It is a substantial and very attractive rural vernacular style property with an elaborate thatched roof, multiple rustic-style feathered weatherboard-hung gables, diamond lattice style leaded light casement windows, tall brick chimneys and simple white painted rendered walls.

It is included on this register not only for its significant architectural interest as an interwar cottage style residence but also for its historical associations as a residence of the Chairman of the Sainsbury grocery company during a period of enormous growth in the 1920s-1950s when it was (and still is to this day) one of Britain's leading retailers.

[[Category:All]]
[[Category:1930s]]
[[Category:Residential]]
[[Category:Pinewoods]]
[[Category:Kewhurst Ward]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Thatched}}

The Thatched House, Pinewoods

2026-03-07T13:24:57Z

EdmundB:

{{Infobox
|image=[[File:The Thatched House, Pinewoods, Bexhill.jpg|thumb|class=pageimage]]
|date=early 1930s
|architect=unknown
|builder=H.R. Farnfield
|use=Residential
|osmid=w491764777
|lat=50.84544|lng=0.44428
}}

Mr. John Benjamin Sainsbury, the Chairman of the well-known supermarket chain (1928-56) , commissioned this house to be built for his retirement.

The house and an accompanying cottage (now The Lodge, Collington Rise) were built for him in the early 1930s by the builder H.R. Farnfield. The contract for the house was for £17,000, which was noted as a significant sum for a single-house contract at that time. Mr. Sainsbury spent an additional £1,000 on landscaping. This included converting an existing footpath into a small road lined on both sides with rhododendrons.

His head gardener, Mr. Osbourne, lived in the cottage in the grounds (demolition of this cottage was proposed in 2015 to make way for a new development of a block of six flats but this was refused by Rother DC), and he also employed a chauffeur, Bill Leaory.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/bexhillonsea-beginning-people-district-1983/page/31/ Bexhill-on-Sea: It's Beginning, the People & District by H. G. Carey (1983)]</ref>

Following the death of Mr Sainsbury in 1956 the house was converted into five flats with over a dozen houses built in the former very extensive gardens (all granted planning permission in 1956-57), but retains many of its external features.

This is apparently one of only three thatched houses in Bexhill (the former gardener's cottage, now The Lodge, is the second). It is a substantial and very attractive rural vernacular style property with an elaborate thatched roof, multiple rustic-style feathered weatherboard-hung gables, diamond lattice style leaded light casement windows, tall brick chimneys and simple white painted rendered walls.

It is included on this register not only for its significant architectural interest as an interwar cottage style residence but also for its historical associations as a residence of the Chairman of the Sainsbury grocery company during a period of enormous growth in the 1920s-1950s when it was (and still is to this day) one of Britain's leading retailers.

[[Category:All]]
[[Category:1930s]]
[[Category:Residential]]
[[Category:Pinewoods]]
[[Category:Kewhurst Ward]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Thatched}}

The Thatched House, Pinewoods

2026-03-07T13:23:50Z

EdmundB: added architectural detail and planning history post the death of JBS in 1956)

{{Infobox
|image=[[File:The Thatched House, Pinewoods, Bexhill.jpg|thumb|class=pageimage]]
|date=early 1930s
|architect=unknown
|builder=H.R. Farnfield
|use=Residential
|osmid=w491764777
|lat=50.84544|lng=0.44428
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Mr. John Benjamin Sainsbury, the Chairman of the well-known supermarket chain (1928-56) , commissioned this house to be built for his retirement.

The house and an accompanying cottage (now The Lodge, Collington Rise) were built for him in the early 1930s by the builder H.R. Farnfield. The contract for the house was for £17,000, which was noted as a significant sum for a single-house contract at that time. Mr. Sainsbury spent an additional £1,000 on landscaping. This included converting an existing footpath into a small road lined on both sides with rhododendrons.

His head gardener, Mr. Osbourne, lived in the cottage in the grounds (demolition of this cottage was proposed in 2015 to make way for a new development of a block of six flats but this was refused by Rother DC), and he also employed a chauffeur, Bill Leaory.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/bexhillonsea-beginning-people-district-1983/page/31/ Bexhill-on-Sea: It's Beginning, the People & District by H. G. Carey (1983)]</ref>

Following the death of Mr Sainsbury in 1956 the house was converted into five flats with over a dozen houses built in the former very extensive gardens (all granted planning permission in 1956-57), but retains many of its external features.

This is apparently one of only three thatched houses in Bexhill (the former gardener's cottage, now The Lodge, is the second). It is a substantial and very attractive rural vernacular style property with an elaborate thatched roof, multiple rustic-style feathered weatherboard-hung gables, diamond lattice style leaded light casement windows, tall brick chimneys and simple white painted rendered walls.

It is included on this register not only for its signficiant architectural interest but also for its historical associations as a residence of the Chairman of the Sainsbury grocery company during a period of enormous growth in the 1920s-1950s when it was (and still is to this day) one of Britain's leading retailers.
[[Category:All]]
[[Category:1930s]]
[[Category:Residential]]
[[Category:Pinewoods]]
[[Category:Kewhurst Ward]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Thatched}}

Bexhill Signal Box, Station Road

2025-12-11T15:38:12Z

EdmundB:

{{Infobox
|image=[[File:Bexhill Signalbox - geograph.org.uk - 5306397.jpg|thumb|class=pageimage]]
|date=1876
|architect=unknown
|builder=unknown
|use=Part of railway
|osmid=w257476393
|lat=50.84078|lng=0.47290
}}
This signal box pre-dates the Grade II listed Edwardian station buildings by over 25 years and is a good example of a small mid-Victorian London, Brighton & South Coast Railway signal box. It was built in 1876 when the station was located on its original site opened in 1846 to the west of the existing station, fronting Station Road where the present-day Sainsbury's supermarket car park is. The station was then re-sited to the east in 1891 to face Devonshire Square before moving to its present location facing Sea Road in 1902.

It is very similar in design to Berwick Signal Box also in East Sussex built 3 years later in 1879 by the same railway company which was listed Grade II in 2013<ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1413793?section=official-list-entry Historic England: Berwick Signal Box]</ref>. It is also of the Saxby and Farmer Type 5 design patented in 1856 but the Bexhill box has retained its timber windows and round arched window openings at the lower level unlike the Berwick one which has PVCu replacements and bricked up lower windows. The Bexhill Signal Box closed in February 2015.

It has an important group value with the already Grade II listed station buildings<ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1379825?section=official-list-entry Historic England: Bexhill Central Railway Station]</ref>, it is not known how much of the interior survives.

Another box in Rother district was listed Grade II in 2013 at Rye station<ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1415163?section=official-list-entry Historic England: Rye Signal Box]</ref>, this was constructed 20 years later than Bexhill, in 1896.

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
BexhillSignalBoxc1910.jpg|c1910
Old signalling, bexhill (14908136735).jpg|Modern day view
</gallery>

[[Category:All]]
[[Category:1870s]]
[[Category:Station Road]]
[[Category:Central Ward]]

Manor Gardens (buildings), De La Warr Road

2025-11-08T22:22:04Z

EdmundB:

{{Infobox
|image=[[File:Manor Gardens, Bexhill (aerial) (1).jpg|thumb|class=pageimage]]
|date=various
|architect=unknown
|builder=unknown
|use=Farm auxiliary
|osmid=w262540508
|lat=50.84494|lng=0.47990
}}
It is imperative that the existing listing description in the National Heritage List for 'the ruins of the former manor house' which has not been revised since 1976 is reviewed and expanded to refer to all of the historic structures within the present-day gardens rather than just a 3-line passing reference to the 'planned ruin in the public garden' - the remains of the Manor House (built in the 13th Century, rebuilt in the 17th and late 19th centuries) which was demolished by Bexhill Borough Council in 1968 despite having been awarded listed status by the government in 1949).

Important heritage assets on this historic site are not mentioned in this archaic listing description and should be - namely the Manor Barn, the attached cloister facing the rose garden, the walled garden, the linear former agricultural building in the south-east corner of the site and the BLODS hall.

The whole gardens are of such importance they merit being assessed for inclusion on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

=== The Manor Barn ===

Originally a farm building, converted in the 1890s to a games room, in c1910 to a ballroom and c1930 a library.

=== Former stables to the Manor House ===

Now Bexhill Light Opera and Dramatic Society (BLODS), previously the Costume Museum.

=== Outbuildings to the east of the Manor Barn along the path to the pond ===
Mid 19th Century dual-pitched, clay tile roofed former agricultural building with a windowless north elevation of flint cobbles with red brick string courses facing the gardens, timber doors on the similar south elevation facing the descending path.

=== Walled Garden ===
Enclosed by tall flint walls, this rectangular garden on the southern boundary of Manor Gardens provides a very sheltered subtropical environment for exotic plants.

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Manor Gardens, Bexhill - geograph.org.uk - 2324979.jpg|Manor Barn
Blods Hall, Manor Gardens, Bexhill.jpg|BLODS Hall
</gallery>

[[Category:All]]
[[Category:C17]]
[[Category:De La Warr Road]]
[[Category:Public Buildings]]
[[Category:Old Town Conserv. Area]]
[[Category:Sackville Ward]]

Manor Gardens (buildings), De La Warr Road

2025-11-08T22:15:20Z

EdmundB:

{{Infobox
|image=[[File:Manor Gardens, Bexhill (aerial) (1).jpg|thumb|class=pageimage]]
|date=various
|architect=unknown
|builder=unknown
|use=Farm auxiliary
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}}
It is imperative that the existing listing description in the National Heritage List for 'the ruins of the former manor house' which has not been revised since 1976 is reviewed and expanded to refer to all of the historic structures within the present-day gardens rather than just a 3-line passing reference to the 'planned ruin in the public garden' (the remains of the manor house which was demolished by Bexhill Borough Council in 1968 despite having been awarded listed status in 1949).

Important structures on this historic site are not mentioned in this archaic listing and should be - namely the Manor Barn, the attached cloister facing the rose garden, the walled garden, the linear former agricultural building in the south-east corner of the site and the BLODS hall.

The whole gardens are of such importance they merit being assessed for inclusion on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

=== The Manor Barn ===

Originally a farm building, converted in the 1890s to a games room, in c1910 to a ballroom and c1930 a library.

=== Former stables to the Manor House ===

Now Bexhill Light Opera and Dramatic Society (BLODS), previously the Costume Museum.

=== Outbuildings to the east of the Manor Barn along the path to the pond ===
Mid 19th Century dual-pitched, clay tile roofed former agricultural building with a windowless north elevation of flint cobbles with red brick string courses facing the gardens, timber doors on the similar south elevation facing the descending path.

=== Walled Garden ===
Enclosed by tall flint walls, this rectangular garden on the southern boundary of Manor Gardens provides a very sheltered subtropical environment for exotic plants.

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Manor Gardens, Bexhill - geograph.org.uk - 2324979.jpg|Manor Barn
Blods Hall, Manor Gardens, Bexhill.jpg|BLODS Hall
</gallery>

[[Category:All]]
[[Category:C17]]
[[Category:De La Warr Road]]
[[Category:Public Buildings]]
[[Category:Old Town Conserv. Area]]
[[Category:Sackville Ward]]

Manor Gardens (buildings), De La Warr Road

2025-11-08T22:12:17Z

EdmundB:

{{Infobox
|image=[[File:Manor Gardens, Bexhill (aerial) (1).jpg|thumb|class=pageimage]]
|date=various
|architect=unknown
|builder=unknown
|use=Farm auxiliary
|osmid=w262540508
|lat=50.84494|lng=0.47990
}}
It is imperative that the existing listing description in the National Heritage List for 'the ruins of the former manor house' which has not been revised since 1976 is reviewed and expanded to refer to al of the historic structures within the present-day gardens rather than just a 3-line passing reference to the 'planned ruin in the public garden' (the remains of the manor house which was demolished in 1968 despite having been awarded listed status in 1949..

Important structures on this historic site are excluded from the ancient listing and need protecting (namely the Manor Barn, the attached cloister facing the rose garden, the walled garden, the linear former agricultural building in the south-east corner of the site and the BLODS hall).

The whole gardens is of such importance they merit being assessed for inclusion on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

=== The Manor Barn ===

Originally a farm building, converted in the 1890s to a games room, in c1910 to a ballroom and c1930 a library.

=== Former stables to the Manor House ===

Now Bexhill Light Opera and Dramatic Society (BLODS), previously the Costume Museum.

=== Outbuildings to the east of the Manor Barn along the path to the pond ===
Mid 19th Century dual-pitched, clay tile roofed former agricultural building with a windowless north elevation of flint cobbles with red brick string courses facing the gardens, timber doors on the similar south elevation facing the descending path.

=== Walled Garden ===
Enclosed by tall flint walls, this rectangular garden on the southern boundary of Manor Gardens provides a very sheltered subtropical environment for exotic plants.

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Manor Gardens, Bexhill - geograph.org.uk - 2324979.jpg|Manor Barn
Blods Hall, Manor Gardens, Bexhill.jpg|BLODS Hall
</gallery>

[[Category:All]]
[[Category:C17]]
[[Category:De La Warr Road]]
[[Category:Public Buildings]]
[[Category:Old Town Conserv. Area]]
[[Category:Sackville Ward]]

Manor Gardens (buildings), De La Warr Road

2025-11-08T22:11:49Z

EdmundB: This entry has been updated following a representation from Bexhill Old Town Preservation Society recommended it be expanded to include more of the heritage assets

{{Infobox
|image=[[File:Manor Gardens, Bexhill (aerial) (1).jpg|thumb|class=pageimage]]
|date=various
|architect=unknown
|builder=unknown
|use=Farm auxiliary
|osmid=w262540508
|lat=50.84494|lng=0.47990
}}
It is imperative that the existing listing description for 'the ruins of the former manor house' which has not been revised since 1976 is reviewed and expanded to refer to al of the historic structures within the present-day gardens rather than just a 3-line passing reference to the 'planned ruin in the public garden' (the remains of the manor house which was demolished in 1968 despite having been awarded listed status in 1949..

Important structures on this historic site are excluded from the ancient listing and need protecting (namely the Manor Barn, the attached cloister facing the rose garden, the walled garden, the linear former agricultural building in the south-east corner of the site and the BLODS hall).

The whole gardens is of such importance they merit being assessed for inclusion on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

=== The Manor Barn ===

Originally a farm building, converted in the 1890s to a games room, in c1910 to a ballroom and c1930 a library.

=== Former stables to the Manor House ===

Now Bexhill Light Opera and Dramatic Society (BLODS), previously the Costume Museum.

=== Outbuildings to the east of the Manor Barn along the path to the pond ===
Mid 19th Century dual-pitched, clay tile roofed former agricultural building with a windowless north elevation of flint cobbles with red brick string courses facing the gardens, timber doors on the similar south elevation facing the descending path.

=== Walled Garden ===
Enclosed by tall flint walls, this rectangular garden on the southern boundary of Manor Gardens provides a very sheltered subtropical environment for exotic plants.

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Manor Gardens, Bexhill - geograph.org.uk - 2324979.jpg|Manor Barn
Blods Hall, Manor Gardens, Bexhill.jpg|BLODS Hall
</gallery>

[[Category:All]]
[[Category:C17]]
[[Category:De La Warr Road]]
[[Category:Public Buildings]]
[[Category:Old Town Conserv. Area]]
[[Category:Sackville Ward]]

Bexhill War Memorial

2025-09-11T20:43:01Z

EdmundB: update on Grade II listing of the War Memorial on Marina.

{{Infobox
|image=[[File:Bexhill War Memorial.jpg|thumb|class=pageimage]]
|date=1920-12-12
|architect=Louis Frederick Roslyn RBS
|builder=unknown
|use=Memorial
|osmid=w1212393526
|lat=50.83787|lng=0.47669
}}
Three-stepped Portland stone base surmounted by plinth and obelisk. Inscription on sides of the plinth. Angel of victory with dramatic outstretched wings in bonze holding wreath aloft in her left hand and lowered sword of justice in her right hand, placed in front of obelisk. Brick wall surround the memorial. The memorial commemorates all the armed services in both world wars recording 389 killed in WWI and 116 in WWII. Unveiled on 12th December 1920 by Brigadier General H O’Donnell.

'''Update - Bexhill War Memorial was listed Grade II on 11th September 2025, the government's national heritage advisor Historic England citing both its architectural interest as "a substantial civic memorial with a finely modelled bronze sculpture of Victory designed by the distinguished sculptor Louis Frederick Roslyn", and its historic interest as "as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on the local community, and the sacrifice it made in the conflicts of the C20."'''

'''Historic England's sources listed in the listing description include the Bexhill Heritage Local List.'''

'''The national (statutory) listed designation status means this entry will be removed from this Local List.'''

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Bexhill War Memorial, October 2024 07.jpg
Bexhill War Memorial, October 2024 03.jpg
</gallery>

[[Category:All]]
[[Category:1920s]]
[[Category:Artwork & Memorials]]
[[Category:Wartime structures]]
[[Category:Marina]]
[[Category:Sackville Ward]]

Bank Chambers, Buckhurst Road

2025-08-12T13:42:10Z

EdmundB: added LCB on the fletch

{{Infobox
|image=[[File:London & County Bank Buckhurst Road, Bexhill (1898).jpg|thumb|class=pageimage]]
|date=1898
|architect=Zephaniah King
|builder=unknown
|use=Bank
|osmid=w392301789
|lat=50.84175|lng=0.47184}}
Built in 1898 for the London & County Bank as their Sussex head office. Designed by Zephaniah King (c1834-1906), its majestic façade is of banded red brick and stone in the late Victorian/Edwardian streaky bacon style.

Following a company merger in 1909 it became a branch of the London & Westminster Bank, becoming the Westminster Bank in 1923 and the National Westminster (later rebranded NatWest) in 1968. The branch closed in 1992 and it became a Rother District Council advice centre and offices for voluntary organisations. The upper floors were converted to flats in 2015 and the ground floor in 2020.

The square corner ground floor entrance portal is surmounted by an octagonal tower with a flattened ogee copper dome and weather vane which still has its original "LCB" inscribed on the fletch. The elevations flanking the corner tower both have three bays but have different fenestration at ground and first floors (the same round-headed windows to the second floor). Large windows lit the banking hall, manager’s office and cashiers space. All of the windows to the upper floors either side of the corner tower have stone balustrade balconies, The ground floor windows to the former banking hall retain their original varnished hard-wood window frames with multi-pane top-lights. The building retains its fine chimney stacks and pots and steep slate roof.

The painted timber door to the bank manager’s flat is the original staff entrance. The main entrance doors to the former banking hall were modified as part of the conversion of the advice centre to residential. The inscribed lettering ‘Bank’ remains over the main entrance. The original boundary wall and piers also survive - also of banded brick and stone with moulded stone copings as do the two pairs of gate piers.
The rear elevation is also little altered – given its high visibility from Amherst Road it was given a high quality elevation instead of the customary plain elevational design - the brick and stone banding of the principal street elevations employed here too.

[[Category:Buckhurst Road]]
[[Category:1890s]]
[[Category:Central Ward]]
[[Category:Residential]]
[[Category:All]]

Normanhurst, De La Warr Parade

2025-06-19T07:07:27Z

EdmundB: corrected typos and minor ams

{{Infobox
|image=[[File:Normanhurst, Brassey Road, Bexhill.jpg|thumb|class=pageimage]]
|date=1893
|architect=unknown
|builder=James Gold
|use=Hotel
|osmid=w354413654
|lat=50.83823|lng=0.47795
}}
Built in 1893 by James Gold, Normanhurst was an hotel until 1968 when it closed and became a nursing home. It was named after the country house of the famous Brassey family, Normanhurst Court at Catsfield. Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey (1836-1918) was the Liberal MP for Hastings (1868-1886), raised to the peerage in 1886, Governor of Victoria in Australia (1895-1900) and Mayor of Bexhill in 1907-08.

The five-storey building has an octagonal corner turret and a wide triangular pediment on the Brassey Road elevation, embellished with an elaborately decorated plaster relief. A second relief featuring the sun at its centre adorns this facade at 3rd floor level. On the De La Warr Parade elevation it has three gables topped by triangular pedments which continue west in the form of '''Sandringham Court''', '''Cantelupe Court''' and '''De La Warr Court''' all built at the same time (and included in this local listing).

On Brassey Road the three-storey bay windows are linked at first floor level by a balcony sheltered by a roof supported on two columns, bottle balustrades topping the bays. The three blocks of flats have grand projecting porches with pediments supported on paired columns. All four buildings retain their front boundary walls and substantial piers topped by dentilled coping stones, some also urns.

<gallery>
De La Warr Court - geograph.org.uk - 5449834.jpg|Sandringham Court, Cantelupe Court and De La Warr Court.
</gallery>

[[Category:All]]
[[Category:1890s]]
[[Category:De La Warr Parade]]
[[Category:Residential]]
[[Category:Central Ward]]

Bumpkins Cottage, Normans Bay Road

2025-06-05T15:33:24Z

EdmundB: added circa date

{{Infobox
|image=[[File:Bumpkins Cottage.jpg|thumb|class=pageimage]]
|date=1890s
|architect=unknown
|builder=unknown
|use=Residential
|osmid=w588134163
|lat=50.82725|lng=0.39491
}}
One of a pair of semi-detached former railway cottages adjacent to a footpath crossing the mainline between Hastings and London via Eastbourne, likely to have been built by the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway company in c1890 to accommodate its employees who worked on this line.

The cottage has an L-shaped plan with dual pitch slated roofs, tall chimney stacks, rendered elevations and an attractive open porch in the corner of the L with hipped slate roof and timber supporting posts. It is attached to another dwelling built at the same time (Railway Cottage) but this is too altered to include in this designation.

[[Category:All]]
[[Category:1890s]]
[[Category:Residential]]
[[Category:Normans Bay Road]]
[[Category:St. Mark's Ward]]

1-10 Coastguard Cottages, Normans Bay Road

2025-06-05T15:30:40Z

EdmundB: typo

{{Infobox
|image=[[File:Coastguard Cottages 1.jpg|thumb|class=pageimage]]
|date=1860s
|architect=unknown
|builder=unknown
|use=Residential
|osmid=w582373022
|lat=50.82582|lng=0.39352
}}
In 1860 the Admiralty were given powers to acquire land and establish coastguard stations. At Normans Bay land was acquired from the Dukes of Devonshire and, in 1866, the coastguard station was built and was named Pevensey Coastguard Station. Martello Towers 53,54 and 55 were all in close proximity and were used to house the families of coastguard before this terrace of 10 cottages with an officers house was built in the late 1860s.

The front doors are on the north (landward) side of each cottage, fronting on to a communal path. The sea-side elevation of the cottages had only windows and not doors originally, probably as protection from the severe weather. They have simple rendered elevations and one continuous dual-pitch slated roof with rectangular stacks and clay chimney pots. Each cottage had its own outhouse or privy with red brick gabled end elevations and slate roofs. Some of these survive to this day such as at No. 6 and 7 and are important elements of this historic terrace which should be refurbished and retained. Inside there was a kitchen with a range and one living room; upstairs were three bedrooms, one of which most people converted to part-bathrooms as piped water became available.

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Coastguard Cottages 2.jpg
</gallery>

[[Category:All]]
[[Category:1860s]]
[[Category:Residential]]
[[Category:Normans Bay Road]]
[[Category:St. Mark's Ward]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Coastguard}}

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2025-06-02T09:31:56Z

EdmundB: typo

<div style="text-align:justify;margin:10px 0">This is a draft of a new Local List for Bexhill-on-Sea created by committee members of [https://bexhillheritage.com Bexhill Heritage]. It is a first step in drawing up a more comprehensive submission to Rother District Council for their assessment of our recommendations and adoption.
Local listing does not introduce a requirement to obtain any additional permissions over and above those that are already required. Inclusion on the Local List means that the building’s conservation as a heritage asset of historic and/or architectural importance is a material consideration when a planning authority decides a planning application. Proposals for change will be decided taking a balanced judgement having regard to the scale of any harm or loss and the significance of the heritage asset.

Rother District Council does not currently have a Local List but other nearby local authorities do, including Eastbourne (see: https://democracy.lewes-eastbourne.gov.uk/documents/s3289/Building%20of%20Local%20Interest%20-%20Draft%20Criteria%20Document.pdf ) and Hastings (see : https://www.hastings.gov.uk/conservation/heritage-assets/ ).

Following the unanimous support for a new local list by Bexhill Heritage members at a recent Members Meeting, we are consulting BH members on this draft local list - members can support (or disagree with) our existing candidates and/or share additional information on their history, architect etc by emailing [mailto:locallist@bexhillheritage.com locallist@bexhillheritage.com], as well as put forward new contenders of their own by using the nomination link below.</div>

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2025-06-02T09:22:43Z

EdmundB: added Eastbourne LL comparator

<div style="text-align:justify;margin:10px 0">This is a draft of a new Local List for Bexhill-on-Sea created by committee members of [https://bexhillheritage.com Bexhill Heritage]. It is a first step in drawing up a more comprehensive submission to Rother District Councill for their assessment of our recommendations and adoption.
Local listing does not introduce a requirement to obtain any additional permissions over and above those that are already required. Inclusion on the Local List means that the building’s conservation as a heritage asset of historic and/or architectural importance is a material consideration when a planning authority decides a planning application. Proposals for change will be decided taking a balanced judgement having regard to the scale of any harm or loss and the significance of the heritage asset.

Rother District Council does not currently have a Local List but other nearby local authorities do, including Eastbourne (see: https://democracy.lewes-eastbourne.gov.uk/documents/s3289/Building%20of%20Local%20Interest%20-%20Draft%20Criteria%20Document.pdf ) and Hastings (see : https://www.hastings.gov.uk/conservation/heritage-assets/ ).

Following the unanimous support for a new local list by Bexhill Heritage members at a recent Members Meeting, we are consulting BH members on this draft local list - members can support (or disagree with) our existing candidates and/or share additional information on their history, architect etc by emailing [mailto:locallist@bexhillheritage.com locallist@bexhillheritage.com], as well as put forward new contenders of their own by using the nomination link below.</div>

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2025-06-02T09:19:41Z

EdmundB:

<div style="text-align:justify;margin:10px 0">This is a draft of a new Local List for Bexhill-on-Sea created by committee members of [https://bexhillheritage.com Bexhill Heritage]. It is a first step in drawing up a more comprehensive submission to Rother District Councill for their assessment of our recommendations and adoption.
Local listing does not introduce a requirement to obtain any additional permissions over and above those that are already required. Inclusion on the Local List means that the building’s conservation as a heritage asset of historic and/or architectural importance is a material consideration when a planning authority decides a planning application. Proposals for change will be decided taking a balanced judgement having regard to the scale of any harm or loss and the significance of the heritage asset. Rother Distric Council does not currently have a Local List but other nearby local authorities do including Eastbourne and Hastings (see : https://www.hastings.gov.uk/conservation/heritage-assets/ ).

Following the unanimous support for a new local list by Bexhill Heritage members at a vote at a recent Members Meeting, we are consulting BH members on this draft local list - members can support (or disagree with) our existing candidates and/or share additional information on their history, architect etc by emailing [mailto:locallist@bexhillheritage.com locallist@bexhillheritage.com], as well as put forward new contenders of their own by using the nomination link below.</div>

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2025-06-02T09:19:12Z

EdmundB: added local precedent for local lists and the unanimous support at BH members meeting

<div style="text-align:justify;margin:10px 0">This is a draft of a new Local List for Bexhill-on-Sea created by committee members of [https://bexhillheritage.com Bexhill Heritage]. It is a first step in drawing up a more comprehensive submission to Rother District Councill for their assessment of our recommendations and adoption.
Local listing does not introduce a requirement to obtain any additional permissions over and above those that are already required. Inclusion on the Local List means that the building’s conservation as a heritage asset of historic and/or architectural importance is a material consideration when a planning authority decides a planning application. Proposals for change will be decided taking a balanced judgement having regard to the scale of any harm or loss and the significance of the heritage asset. Rother Distric Council does not currently have a Local List but other nearby local authorities do including Easrtbourne and Hastings (see : https://www.hastings.gov.uk/conservation/heritage-assets/ ).

Following the unanimous support for a new local list by Bexhill Heritage members at a vote at a recent Members Meeting, we are consulting BH members on this draft local list - members can support (or disagree with) our existing candidates and/or share additional information on their history, architect etc by emailing [mailto:locallist@bexhillheritage.com locallist@bexhillheritage.com], as well as put forward new contenders of their own by using the nomination link below.</div>

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2025-06-02T09:08:42Z

EdmundB: Added to text on what a local list is and how it will assist a local planning authority in determing the future development of the nominees.

<div style="text-align:justify;margin:10px 0">This is a draft of a Local List for Bexhill-on-Sea created by committee members of [https://bexhillheritage.com Bexhill Heritage]. It is a first step in drawing up a more comprehensive submission to Rother District Councill for their assessment of our recommendations and adoption.
Local listing does not introduce a requirement to obtain any additional permissions over and above those that are already required. Inclusion on the Local List means that the building’s conservation as a heritage asset of historic and/or architectural importance is a material consideration when a planning authority decides a planning application. Proposals for change will be decided taking a balanced judgement having regard to the scale of any harm or loss and the significance of the heritage asset
We are consulting BH members on this draft local list - members can support (or disagree with) our existing candidates and/or share additional information on their history, architect etc by emailing [mailto:locallist@bexhillheritage.com locallist@bexhillheritage.com], as well as put forward new contenders of their own by using the nomination link below.</div>

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Bexhill Hospital, Holliers Hill

2025-05-29T22:18:08Z

EdmundB: added more info

{{Infobox|[[File:Bexhill Hospital - geograph.org.uk - 1463359.jpg|thumb|class=pageimage]]|1933|Adams, Holden & Pearson|unknown|w398362708|50.85069|0.47548}}

This cottage hospital was opened in 1933 by Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, a cousin of King George V, in the presence of the Borough Mayor, the Earl de la Warr.
The hospital was designed by the Bexhill architect JE Maynard (who also designed the Grade II listed Saxons at 58 South Cliff in Collington) advised by the accomplished architectural practice and hospital building design specialists Adams, Holden & Pearson in an elegant neo Georgian style. Its construction was funded by a successful appeal for donations from the people of Bexhill. It was expanded over the years, having a 62 bed capacity by 1939, a three-storey nurses home in the grounds to the south which was completed in 1934 (in the same neo Georgian style) and a flat-roofed outpatients department at the northern end of the site opened in 1938.

It has an H-plan - the ends of the wings were originally open verandas for patients to be wheeled out in their beds for fresh air and sunshine. The elevations are of dark red brick with lighter red brick dressings in the Georgian manner, as are the multi-paned sash windows. The hipped red-tile roofs are crowned by tall chimney stacks and at the centre of the composition above the original main entrance is a copper-clad cupola with clock and very fine weathervane.

The nurses home is now the Bexhill Health Centre and is included in the local listing designation.

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Clock, Bexhill Hospital, Holliers Hill, Bexhill.jpg|Clock tower
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== Futher Reading ==
[https://archive.org/details/bexhill-hospital-50-years-of-caring Bexhill Hospital: 50 Years of Caring 1933-1983 (booklet)]

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Bexhill Cemetery (buildings), Turkey Road

2025-05-29T21:50:52Z

EdmundB: typo

{{Infobox|[[File:Chapel, Bexhill Cemetery - geograph.org.uk - 2819772.jpg|thumb|class=pageimage]]|1902|William Herbert Alton|Frederick William Parker|w354413654|50.85955|0.45086}}

Bexhill Cemetery was opened by the Corporation in 1901 and covers 34 acres. Buildings meriting local listing include the '''chapel''' (1902, designed by WH Alton and built by Frederick William Parker - built of flint cobbles with ashlar dressings, stepped lancets and four-light window to the east with Geometric tracery), the '''lodge''' and the '''gates and railings'''.

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Bexhill Cemetery (aerial).jpg|Aerial view
Foundation Stone, Mortuary Chapel, Bexhill Cemetery.jpg|Chapel foundation stone
Porch, Mortuary Chapel, Bexhill Cemetery.jpg|Chapel porch
Bexhill Cemetery, Turkey Road, Bexhill.jpg|Lodge, gates and railings
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Bexhill Amateur Athletic Club, Little Common Road

2025-05-29T21:49:31Z

EdmundB: extra info and corrected historical background of pre-war planning and commencement

{{Infobox|[[File:Bexhill Amateur Athletic Sports Centre, Little Common Road, Bexhill.jpg|thumb|class=pageimage]]|1937|unknown|unknown|w28944755|50.84554|0.46427}}

Planned and designed in the mid 1930s, the foundation stone having been laid by the Mayor of Bexhill in 1937, the Second World War delayed its completion and it was finally opened in May 1946, 8 months after the war ended in 1945. This is a very early example of an urban sports centre, a rare building type until the 1960s. It was built for the Bexhill Amateur Athletic Club and continues in its original fitness use as a gym and judo club.

Its design is very much in the 1930s fusion of modern movement and neo-Georgian idioms, the latter most evident in the rather whimsical square-section cupola with clock face on the front elevation facing Bexhill Down. The double-height gymnasium (lit by full height steel windows) and two stories of offices stand to the rear with a lower frontage to Little Common Road, the entrance incorporating a simple art deco-inspired porch. On the right hand side the last bay has a wall of bricks inscribed with the names of those who donated a shilling to help fund the construction of the building. The elevations are of a dark red brick with broad concrete tiles of the hipped roof.

== Gallery ==
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Bexhill Amateur Athletic Club, Little Common Rd - rear elevation.jpg|Rear elevation
Foundation Stone, Bexhill Amateur Athletic Sports Centre, Little Common Road, Bexhill.jpg|Foundation stones
Foundation Stone, Bexhill Amateur Athletic Sports Centre, Little Common Road, Bexhill (2).jpg
Foundation Stone, Bexhill Amateur Athletic Sports Centre, Little Common Road, Bexhill (3).jpg
Foundation Stone, Bexhill Amateur Athletic Sports Centre, Little Common Road, Bexhill (4).jpg
Wall, Bexhill Amateur Athletic Sports Centre, Little Common Road, Bexhill.jpg|Wall of names of those who donated a shilling to help build the sports centre.
Wall, Bexhill Amateur Athletic Sports Centre, Little Common Road, Bexhill (2).jpg
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The Bell, Church Street

2025-05-29T21:26:41Z

EdmundB: added more info

{{Infobox|[[File:The Bell, Church Street, Bexhill.jpg|thumb|class=pageimage]]|c1673|unknown|unknown|w393509374|50.84548|0.47874}}

Possibly 17th Century - Antram in Buildings of England records the first mention being in 1751. By then it was a coaching inn with stables and lodgings on the journey from Hastings to London.

The ballroom with its grand Venetian window, and brewhouse were added in 1811. It was remodelled and re-fronted in 1887, when it was renamed the Bell Hotel. The public house closed in 2013 and it was converted to flats, retaining the corner saloon bar in beverage use.

The three-storied building is a key landmark in the Old Town - the upper floors are of red brick above an ashlar rendered ground floor, the first floor piano nobile has windows with elegant classical architraves , a moulded bell on the rounded street corner sits within a triangular pediment. The shallow pitched roof is slated, hipped on the corner and retaining its four chimney stacks
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Bank Chambers, Buckhurst Road

2025-05-29T21:14:56Z

EdmundB: added extra info and an additional photo

{{Infobox|[[File:Bexhill Community Hub, Buckhurst Road, Bexhill - geograph.org.uk - 629320.jpg|thumb|class=pageimage]]|1898|Zephaniah King|unknown|w392301789|50.84175|0.47184}}

Built in 1898 for the London & County Bank as their Sussex head office. Designed by Zephaniah King (c1834-1906), its majestic façade is of banded red brick and stone in the late Victorian/Edwardian streaky bacon style.

Following a company merger in 1909 it became a branch of the London & Westminster Bank, becoming the Westminster Bank in 1923 and the National Westminster (later rebranded NatWest) in 1968. The branch closed in 1992 and it became a Rother District Council advice centre and offices for voluntary organisations. The upper floors were converted to flats in 2015 and the ground floor in 2020.

The square corner ground floor entrance portal is surmounted by an octagonal tower with a flattened ogee copper dome and weather vane. The elevations flanking the corner tower both have three bays but have different fenestration at ground and first floors (the same round-headed windows to the second floor). Large windows lit the banking hall, manager’s office and cashiers space. All of the windows to the upper floors either side of the corner tower have stone balustrade balconies, The ground floor windows to the former banking hall retain their original varnished hard-wood window frames with multi-pane top-lights. The building retains its fine chimney stacks and pots and steep slate roof.

The painted timber door to the bank manager’s flat is the original staff entrance. The main entrance doors to the former banking hall were modified as part of the conversion of the advice centre to residential. The inscribed lettering ‘Bank’ remains over the main entrance. The original boundary wall and piers also survive - also of banded brick and stone with moulded stone copings as do the two pairs of gate piers.
[[File:London & County Bank Buckhurst Road, Bexhill (1898).jpg|thumb]]
The rear elevation is also little altered – given its high visibility from Amherst Road it was given a high quality elevation instead of the customary plain elevational design - the brick and stone banding of the principal street elevations employed here too.
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File:London & County Bank Buckhurst Road, Bexhill (1898).jpg

2025-05-29T21:13:15Z

EdmundB:

Street facades

36 St. Leonards Road

2025-05-24T21:48:37Z

EdmundB:

{{Infobox|[[File:36 St. Leonards Road 1.jpg|thumb|class=pageimage]]|1917|unknown|unknown|w366835720|50.83962|0.47574}}

Edwardian Arts & Crafts style four storey red brick building with traditional shop front comprising display cases either side of a central lobby, Canted bay to upper two floors with lead spandrel panels and multi-pane sash windows, deep eaves with central gable and either side a pair of dormer windows to 3rd floor above.

== Gallery ==
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36 St. Leonards Road 2.jpg
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30 St. Leonards Road

2025-05-24T21:45:46Z

EdmundB: added rear elevation window

{{Infobox|[[File:30 St. Leonards Road.jpg|thumb|class=pageimage]]|1912|unknown|unknown|w366835723|50.83964|0.47546}}

A good example of Edwardian architecture, rebuilt in 1912 with an exquisite white faience façade, mullioned windows with leaded light panes and a central steep triangular pedimented gable with a richly decorated oeil de boeuf centrepiece. At the rear of the shop the fine leaded light high level window extends the full width of the establishment.

== Gallery ==
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30 St. Leonards Road 2.jpg|Interior
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