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Historic Buildings in Ockley

Ockley has a large range of historic buildings in the Parish. Here is a list of the more noteable ones.

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Building
Date
Description
The Bakery - Stane Street Late 17 Century A 3 bay cottage, which has been extended towards the street to become 2, now one again with the bakehouse at the back.
Brickyard Cottage 19 Century A symmetrical 2 room up,2 room down,central front doorway in the 'Cottage Ornee' style.
Buckinghill Farm - Bognor Road (A29) circa 1500 Originally built as a 4 bay hall house, a smoke bay was then inserted, then a face-wing added with hearths & bread oven.
Barn 18 Century A 5 bay boarded barn,partly of re-used timbers; 1 bay on a brick cill, the others timber on stone foundations with some galleting.
Boswells Farm - Ruckmans Lane circa 16th Century  
Carpoles - The Green Late 17 Century Near the site of a carp pond. These were mentioned in the Doomsday Book. Built as a 2 bay timber framed house, 2 storeys with attics - a coach-house & stables added - later adapted as a 2nd cottage.
Chestnut House - Stane Street circa 17th Century & later Old surgery
Cleveland formerly White Hall -Stane Street Early 19 Century A symmetrical stucco Regency villa - 2 rooms on 2 floors + basement. Added rear outshot under catslide roof.
The Cottage Late 16 Century A 3 bay timber framed 2½ storey core behind a Georgian square plan and a Victorian forward wing.
Cricketers Arms - Stane Street 17 Century A 2 bay wing remains,beside it a L17c house with fine inglenook.
Elderslie & Stables - Stane Street Early 17 Century A 4 bay 2½ storey house,2 small wings added soon after; later lengthened,finally 2 rooms in the Regency period. Consolidated from five holdings in 1737.
Elmers Farm - Stane Street Late 16 Century Originally 3 bay house facing lane to mill,wings added both sides to turn house to face Stane street.
Forge Cottages (Nos 1-3) - Stane Street circa 18th Century Ockley workhouse in 1741, 21ft x 48ft known then as Union Terrace and built for £200. On 17th Nov, 1836 the yearly rental was £25 and in 1850 became Forge Cottages.
Barn Early 17 Century A 4 bay timber barn on stone cill with brick quoins. 1 high & 1 lower door opposite Western bay appear to be later.
Cart Shed 19 Century A square cart shed in angle of barn & brick outbuilding. Open front with central post - In process of being renovated
Hovel 19 Century A 3 bay structure end on to a barn, separately framed both from it and from a parallel brick outbuilding. Cladding gone.
Eversheds Farm & outbuilding - Stane Street cicra 1500 An imposing house with 5 major builds from Mediaeval to Victorian - possibly once moated? Listed Grade II. At one time locally known as 'The Great House' and may have been a court venue.
Barn Early 15 Century A 4 bay mediaeval barn with fine early features.
Granary 18 Century A 3 bay boarded building on 12 brick & Horsham stone capped straddles.
Farm Place - Bognor Road (A29) Early16 Century H shaped house,one wing incorporating fragments of 4 bay hall house,fine 2½ storey double jettied parlour wing.
Game Larder 19 Century A small isolated octagonal building with a conical roof,perforated zinc covered windows & air vents. Central drain in floor.
Farm Place Cottage Late 17 Century Originally a 7 bay barn with central threshing bay. 3 bays now a house.
Nos.14/15 The Green Late16 Century A 2 bay end chimney house with additions & roof raised to form two charming cottages.
No.17 The Green 16 Century A 3 bay barn,part converted into a dwelling in Regency times,in Cottage Ornee style.
Greenside - Stane Street 18 Century A dignified 2 storey and attics brick house rendered,2 rear wings possibly replacing earlier outshot.
Hatch Cottage (Nos 9 & 9a) - Stane Street Early 19 Century Site of Hatch Farm - One of a pair of Estate cottages,stone front with brick quoins & dentils.
Nos.9/9a Hatch Cottages circa 1600 An attractive complex farmhouse,now 2 dwellings: 17c renovations raised roof & added wing.
Holbrooks Farm - Weare Street Early 16 Century Held by richard Bax in 1648; by Thomas Bax in 1722 and the residence of Mary Bax in 1785An imposing house with Horsham Stone roof,original L shape has been enlarged.
Ivy Cottage & Vine Cottage - Stane Street Early 17 Century A 2 bay, 2 storey cottage, large end hearth with bread oven. Catslide over continuous contemporary outshot.
Jayes Park - Barn Late 19 Century A 3 bay stone barn with porches & outshots under catslide roofs to porch faces with Gothick windows one side. Open hovel one end.
Kings Arm PH - Stane Street circa 17th and 19th Century  
Granary Early 19 Century Spectacular 'porch' facing the central exit from the Planned Farmyard buildings. 'Swiss Cottage' feel.
Planned Farmyard Early 19 Century Built of local stone round a rectangular yard,barn one end,arched dove house the other. Buildings now converted to workshops,etc.
Lime Tree Cottages (Nos.1 & 2) - The Green Late 16 Century Originally a 4 bay smoke bay house,now in 2 cottages: modern lean-to and one more bay added 18c,added workshops to each.
Maple Cottage - Stane Street 18 Century Old Granary - A 3 bay granary on 12 brick staddles,converted to a cottage with added chimney & outshot.
Mearshurst previously Averies Farm Early 17 Century A 3 bay 2 storey house with original end lean-tos.
Mill Cottage - Stane Street Early 19 Century 3 bay building,end on to Stane Street,with pebble-dashed walls & Gothick details.Bread oven in lean-to.Possibly 19c conversion of farm building.
New Barn House Late 18 Century An imposing former 5 bay barn with opposed central entrances,recently (1982) converted into an attractive open plan house.
Oakwood Mill Farm 19 Century The earliest house had a central chimney;a 3 bay symmetrical chimney house was added;a 3rd build was put in the angle between these 2.
Granary Unknown A square timber granary on 9 brick staddles;pyramidal roof with corner braces.
Stable 19 Century A 3 bay barn in poor condition.
Ockley Court Farm Early 19 Century This 2 storey,with attics,brick house incorporated part of a 3 bay timber barn built on staddles.
Barn Early 17 Century A 3,then 4,bay porched barn with dove cotes above both doors.
Granary 18 Century On 16 brick staddles 2 parallel half hipped roofs allow 'attic' storage above the grain floor.
Hay Barn Late 18 Century A 2 bay open sided tall structure with weather protection on S & W sides.
Henhurst Cottage - Henhurst Cross Lane circa 19th Century  
Ice House 18 Century A tiled conical roof over the dome,partly built into hillside; entry porch with brick arched openings.
Jane Scott School - The Green circa 1871 Provided by Miss Jane Scott a governess to the Arbuthnot family at Elderslie. Constructed of sandstone and opened with one classroom in 1841 followed by another in the 1870's
Lake Cottages (Nos 10 & 11) - The Green circa 17th Century  
Milestone - Stane Street circa 19th Century  
Orchard Cottage - Friday Street Early 17 Century A 2 equal bayed house with 'detached' end chimney to a large inglenook hearth, brick lined but of stone externally. Some re-used timbers.
Park Gate Cottage 17 Century A probable 17c cottage,embellished as a Cottage Ornee in the 19c - very pretty.
Parklands Farmhouse - Mole Street Late 15 Century A 2½ storey building of 1 bay & a smoke bay,incorporating 1 bay of a hall house of unknown size.
Park Farm - Park Lane circa 17 Century  
Parsonage Farm -   No longer exists, but was located at TQ13139378. There may have been an even earlier clerical roof nearer to Eversheds north of Oak river where teh foundations of a small building are known to exist.
Rallywood - The Green 1840  
Rapleys - The Green circa 17th Century  
Red Lion Inn & Stables - Stane Street circa 17th & 18th Century Originally owned by Surrey Trust Houses.
Rose Cottage - Stane Street circa 17th Century  
Granary Early 18 Century A square building on 7 posts with vertical half trunks infill on 2 sides,brick wall on third side.
Stane House - Stane Street 1784 Built at his own expense by the Rev thomas Woodroffe to replace an earlier rectory.
Stylehurst - Weare Street 16 Century The farm contains Ockley's only oast house. An imposing rendered house with Horsham stone roofs of 4 main builds - from possible hall house to Victorian wing.
Stylehurst Farm - Oast House Unknown  
Tanyard Cottages (Nos 21 & 22) - The Green circa 16th Century  
The Surgery & Saddlers Cottage circa 1500 A rendered house concealing a 3 bay hall house with 17c cross wing & modern extensions.
Swiss Cottage - Stane Street Late 16 Century A 4 bay house with large blocks for foundations & hearth backing. 17c service wing.
Tiphams Late 17 Century An interesting house with a long history,but details hard to find - incorporates 2 earlier cottages.
The Old School House PH - Stane Street circa 17th Century Used to be a boarding school called the Ockley Academy for about 50 boys during the period of 1810 to 1860, after which the property was bought by Mr. Cole a non-conformist to accommodate various religious gatherings. In 1918 it became a guest house run by Mrs. Glass where the Choral Society met from 1956-61 before being purchased in 1965 by King & Barnes as a PH (licence transferred from the Brewery Arms)
Game Larder Late 18 Century A square building with pyramidal roof; metal gauze & iron bars to openings. Corner ties.
Trout Farm - Long Barn Late 17 Century A 4 bay barn on N side of farmyard,with smaller barn on W side & stable to N.E.
The Tuns - The Green Early 18 Century A symmetrical house with pedimented porch,dentils & sash windows. The Three Tuns PH until about 1828 when the licence was transferred t the Cricketers. Two of the previous owners - william Young & Thomas Mathews were carpenters.
Village Pump - The Green 1860 & 1986  
Volvens - Mole Street circa 17th Centurt A 5 bay timber framed early central chimney house of two and a half stories.
Wayleys circa 1656 A remarkable 4 bay central chimney house,heavily timbered but with advanced architectural features.
Weavers - Weare Street Late 16 Century A row of 3 cottages now in one occupation,built sequentially 16th, E17th & L17th centuries. Three timber framed cottages formally seperately owned or rented and each with its own staircase and chimney. They were almost certainly 'illegal' weavers cottages sited in wooded isolation to avoid the excise regualtions which controlled ealry 17th Century weaving.
Yew Tree Cottage - Weare Street Mid 17 Century A 2 room up,2 room down with modern wing at right angles - an Estate cottage.
Youngs Farm - Coles Lane Late 16 Century A 3 bay house with 17c 2½ storey wing and 19c laundry wing.
Barn Late 17 Century A 3 bay barn with a later 4 bay barn added,both 'high' doors on field side.

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