List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: Sompting Abbotts
List Entry Number: 1027881
Location
Sompting Abbotts, Church Lane, Sompting, BN15 0AZ
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: West Sussex
District: Adur
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Sompting
National Park: SOUTH DOWNS
Grade: II
Date first listed: 27-Jul-1984
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 297336
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TQ 10 NE
2/29
SOMPTING
CHURCH LANE
Sompting Abbotts
II
Now a boys' school. Built in 1856. Architect P C Hardwick. Tudor style. L-shaped building. Two storeys and attic. Six windows and two dormers in the main block. Faced with flints with stone dressings and quoins and some portions of red brick. Very steep slate roof. Casement windows with stone mullions and transoms.
The south front of the main block has a non-central bay of red brick containing a window of three central lights and two flanking lights. Gable to the east of this and two spiky steep dormers to the west. Bartizan of five-lights on the first floor of the south west angle. Service wing of lower height forming an L to the north east. This has two windows and an octagonal turret higher than the wing itself.
The entrance front has a large square tower of red brick and five storeys projecting beyond the front. Round-turret projecting from this from the second floor upwards. Steep roof crowned by an ornamental octagonal iron railing. Elaborate red brick and stone doorway with side lights and castellated parapet to the west of the tower.
Listing NGR: TQ1628205743
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National Grid Reference: TQ 16282 05743
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