Conservation Area (CA)
No
Local Listing Reference
LLHA0269
Description
A small agricultural building likely to have been used as a storage barn with hay loft over and may have also later acted as the stable for the Hollingbury Park Manager’s horse and cart. The building is faced in coursed field flint with brick dressings and stringcourses beneath a slate roof. The barn does not appear on the Withdean Estate map of c1890 but appears on the second OS map and so must date from between c1890 to 1897 and seems to have been developed at the same time as the adjacent Upper Roedale Cottages. These buildings may possibly have been associated with the Model Dairy Farm at Lower Roedale. The name Roedale appears to derive from William Roe, who owned a large area of land known as the Withdean manorial estate from 1794 until his death in 1853.
The barn has recently been converted to residential use, with a single storey monopitch extension on the south side and a large balcony to the hayloft door on the southern gable end, plus a new window opening, rooflights and other alterations. Despite this domestication, the original agricultural character of the building remains clearly evident. It is now known as Hollingbury Barn.
A. Architectural, design and artistic interest
B. Historic and evidential interest
i. The simple barn demonstrates a good example of a historic - albeit late - regional approach to a traditional vernacular building in its use of local materials of field flint with red brick dressings, with hayloft door.
E. Rarity and representativeness
ii. A rare example in Brighton & Hove of a surviving small Downland storage barn from the late 19th century, pre-dating the suburban expansion of Brighton.
Date of inclusion
2023
