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The Court Hall Town Museum

A Grade I Listed Building in Winchelsea, East Sussex

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Latitude: 50.9248 / 50°55'29"N

Longitude: 0.7085 / 0°42'30"E

OS Eastings: 590451

OS Northings: 117424

OS Grid: TQ904174

Mapcode National: GBR QXV.ZYB

Mapcode Global: FRA D6CN.PVG

Plus Code: 9F22WPF5+WC

Entry Name: The Court Hall Town Museum

Listing Date: 3 August 1961

Last Amended: 13 May 1987

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1234513

English Heritage Legacy ID: 410284

Also known as: Winchelsea Museum

ID on this website: 101234513

Location: Winchelsea, Rother, East Sussex, TN36

County: East Sussex

District: Rother

Civil Parish: Icklesham

Built-Up Area: Winchelsea

Traditional County: Sussex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex

Church of England Parish: Winchelsea

Church of England Diocese: Chichester

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Description


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

Formerly a scheduled 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

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