Park Cottage, 15 De La Warr Road

Park Cottage, 15 De La Warr Road
LL ref:	410
Start date:	C18
Architect:	unknown
Builder:	unknown
Original use:	Residential
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Group value, being in the Old Town Conservation Area and, more specifically, the group that forms the De La Warr Road Street frontage between Church Street and Hastings Road.

Two storeys, painted brick walls with hung clay tiles at first floor level. Porch with heavy piers and round arch, understood to have been added in 1807. Two round bays on front facade which were added in 1910. Casement windows, part wooden, part plastic replacement. Clay tiled roof with gabled transverse pitch at front and double pitch "m" shaped hipped roof to rear. Plus modern extensions side and rear.

Originally called Park Cottage it was owned by the Rogers family at the beginning of the 19th century. By 1873 it had been renamed Eton Cottage. Rother District Council currently has it named as Park Cottage.

Planning permissions were granted in 1987-88 for the conversion of the house into a pharmacy with a dental surgery on the first floor. At the same time outbuildings to the rear were demolished and the new Old Town Surgery was built.

A cast-iron hand-cranked drill can be found to the rear of the property, now an artwork piece, it is likely of Victorian era when the site was a carpenters workshop.

Justifications for local listing are its history, age and group value.

Nominated by the Bexhill Old Town Preservation Society

Gallery

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  Vintage drill sculpture