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Great Dixter

A Grade I Listed Building in Northiam, East Sussex

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.9966 / 50°59'47"N

Longitude: 0.5918 / 0°35'30"E

OS Eastings: 581968

OS Northings: 125105

OS Grid: TQ819251

Mapcode National: GBR QWY.DGL

Mapcode Global: FRA D64G.SH9

Plus Code: 9F22XHWR+JP

Entry Name: Great Dixter

Listing Date: 3 August 1961

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1216957

English Heritage Legacy ID: 411593

ID on this website: 101216957

Location: Northiam, Rother, East Sussex, TN31

County: East Sussex

District: Rother

Civil Parish: Northiam

Built-Up Area: Northiam

Traditional County: Sussex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex

Church of England Parish: Northiam St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Chichester

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Description


TQ 82 NW NORTHIAM HIGH PARK

7/3 Great Dixter

3.8.61
I

This house was restored and arranged in its present fashion by Sir Edwin Lutyens
in 1910-1912 for Nathaniel Lloyd, the author of "The History of the English
House" and other standard works. It is in three parts. The north-west wing is a
timber-framed hall-house of unusually fine proportions and preservation, 1464-
1479 circa. The south-east wing is a house of a similar type but smaller size
which was brought here from Benenden in Kent and re-erected. The north-east wing
is a Lutyens addition containing the offices built on the site of the buttery
wing of the original house, demolished before 1909. The original portion of the
house is close-studded. The first floor of the north-westernmost window bay on
the entrance front oversails on the protruding ends of the floor joists. It has
a gable above the scalloped bargeboards. At the other end of the front is a
2-storey gabled porch with its first floor oversailing on a bressummer and
brackets, the ground floor with open arcaded sides. Two tiers of 5 windows made
up of thin round-headed lights. The garden front has wide overhanging eaves
supported on brackets and a projecting tile hung portion at the north west end.
The end wall has a massive sandstone chimney breast. Tiled roof. Inside, the
subsequently-inserted first floor has been removed from the hall, and both this
and the solar at the north west end have their original king-post roofs, the
former also hammer beams. The Benenden house is also close-studded. Its east
front is jettied on the protruding ends of the floor joists. Tiled roof.
Original windows with wooden mullions. Two storeys. Three windows. The modern
wing added by Lutyens is of red brick on the ground floor and tile-hung above.
Tiled roof. Two storeys. Four windows.


Listing NGR: TQ8196825105

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