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© Mr Richard M. Brown FRICS
IoE Number:
363350
Location:
THE PUNCH BOWL, HIGH STREET (east side)
CRAWLEY, CRAWLEY, WEST SUSSEX
Photographer:
Mr Richard M. Brown FRICS
Date Photographed:
02 April 2007
Date listed:
21 June 1948
Date of last amendment:
23 February 1983
Grade
II*
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HIGH STREET
1.
5403
(east side)
No 101
(National Westminster Bank)
(formerly listed as
TQ 2636 NE 5/27 21.6.48 The Punch Bowl)
II*
2.
Early C15 timber-framed hall-house of Wealden type. Five bays in all. The hall of
2 bays. Two storeys timber-framed with plaster infilling and brick to ground floor on
stone base. Old tiled roof hipped at south end with gablet. External brick chimney
stack to north with semi-circular projection containing bread oven. Four renewed
casement windows. The upper storeys of the north and south ends are jettied and their
wall plates are extended in advance of the middle section and supported on curved
braces.
Hall of 2 bays with open timber roof, cambered tie-beam carrying plain King-post
supporting collar and central purlin. A chimney and floor inserted in C16 and extended
northward one bay within 100 years of the original buildings, contains ground and first
floor rooms, first floor oversailing to the south and underbuilt in brick in the late
Cl7 or early C18. Modern back additions to east. The building was once a farmhouse known
as The Mitchells.
(See V C H Sussex VII, 145
Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol LV (1912) pp 139-143, and Sussex County
Magazine iv 16, 17).