Asset type
Historic building - House
Local Listing Reference
LLHA0046
Conservation Area (CA)
Portslade Old Village CA
Description
Two storey rendered cottages, dating to the early-mid 19th century. Tall, hipped slate roofs. 2 over 2 hung sash windows, of which one is of tripartite design. Semi-circular headed front doors within enclosed porches. Associated with Portslade Manor (the ‘new’ Portslade Manor – now Emmaus – which was built in 1807 and is listed at grade II), the buildings used to have direct access through the rear garden wall into the Manor grounds. They originally housed people working for the Manor. When St Mary’s Convent took over the Manor, a priest occupied one of the houses. Middleton (2002) states that number 18 includes two staircases, and that the front room was dedicated to St Stephen. Set back from the road behind small front gardens with a later fence to the boundary. Abutted by tall flint walls to the Manor grounds to either side. The walls are considered curtilage listed. Source: Middleton 2002
A. Architectural, design and artistic interest
ii. Good quality examples of buildings of their scale, comprising relatively high status worker’s housing still retaining a rural character.
B. Historic and evidential interest
iv. The surviving fabric reveals important detail regarding the relationship between the residents and workers at Portslade Manor.
C. Townscape interest
iv. The buildings are closely associated with Portslade Manor (listed at grade II as St Mary’s Convent), both historically and physically.
F. Intactness
i. The exterior of the buildings retain a sense of completeness
Date of inclusion
Pre-2015
