Heriot Lodge, 90 Belle Hill
| Heriot Lodge, 90 Belle Hill | |
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| LL ref: | 405 |
| Start date: | 1808..1839 |
| Architect: | Richard Day |
| Builder: | unknown |
| Original use: | Coach House |
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The two storey gable-ended original property has decorated bargeboards, a dormer window with matching bargeboards and single external chimney stack running up the street facing elevation. It is rather dominated by a very large two-storey extension to the rear built in the c1990s. The lodge retains its tall beautiful flint cobbled boundary wall along the street frontage with substantial brick piers to the gateway, topped with elaborate terracotta finials.
As part of the construction of Linkwell, Richard Day built a large coach house and stables to service the Estate. By 1925 the coach house had been converted into a residential dwelling.
The plot was separated from the Linkwell estate and sold off in 1927 and from that point on it was known as Heriot Lodge.
The term ‘Heriot’ refers to an ancient Saxon feudal duty paid to the Lord of the Manor on the death of one of his tenants. Payment would normally be the best horse, and so a fitting title bearing in mind the property’s origins.
Justifications for local listing are its history and contribution to the Old Town Conservation Area.
Note: The building has modern extensions and alterations which diminish its architectural integrity somewhat and are except from the listing.
Nominated by the Bexhill Old Town Preservation Society