Shoreham-by-Sea: The Amsterdam

Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 5 Feb 2016

The village of Old Shoreham was here, around the eastern end of the main bridge over the River Adur, and completely separate from New Shoreham to the south. The village has now been swallowed up by the suburban sprawl of Shoreham-by-Sea, but there are a few buildings left from the old village. The Amsterdam is one of them, but despite appearances to the contrary, it is not an old public house, but a house that has been converted into a restaurant. It is however a Grade II Listed Building and the English Heritage website describes it thus:- "House, now restaurant. Early C18. Flint with painted cobbled return fronts and painted brick quoins and dressings. Plain tiled mansard roof with end stack and ridge stack to right. Two storeys and garrets; irregular fenestration of 3 windows on first floor and 5 on ground-floor, the 4 to left in long line. Diamond lattice casements, on ground-floor with segment heads. Entrance with glazed door between first and second windows from right."

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