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Westham houses [3]
Grace Cottage, number 94 High Street, nearer the camera, and Laurel Cottage, number 92 High Street, have an 18th century front to an earlier building. Number
92 is constructed of painted brick on the ground floor and tile-hung above. Number 94 is constructed of red brick with grey headers. The east gable wall is faced with flints with stone quoins. All under a tile roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1028498
The village of Westham is adjacent to the village of Pevensey some five miles (8 km) northeast of Eastbourne. The village is located on a spur of land that was a peninsula that projected into a tidal lagoon, now reclaimed marshland. The village is part of the Greater Eastbourne conurbation, and much recent expansion has taken place. Today it is a commuter village.
Image: © Michael Dibb
Taken: 4 May 2022
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Mounted cannon
For many years this cannon stood by the roadside near Chilly Farm, on a bend, almost exactly one mile north of its present position.
Image: © Peter Jeffery
Taken: Unknown
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Pevensey: The offshoot of the High Street
Image: © Michael Garlick
Taken: 28 Jan 2017
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High Street, Westham
Looking from the junction with the B2191 along the old course of the High Street towards the west gate of Pevensey Castle. Until the 1950s this was the A27 but was replaced by
Image to by-pass the sharp turn next to the castle walls.
Image: © Simon Carey
Taken: 20 Feb 2010
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Westham houses [4]
Gleadon Cottage, number 90 High Street, was built in the 17th century or possibly earlier. The building was refronted in the 18th century and the built-out shopfront was added in the 20th century. Constructed of red brick with the first floor tile-hung to the front. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1184701
The village of Westham is adjacent to the village of Pevensey some five miles (8 km) northeast of Eastbourne. The village is located on a spur of land that was a peninsula that projected into a tidal lagoon, now reclaimed marshland. The village is part of the Greater Eastbourne conurbation, and much recent expansion has taken place. Today it is a commuter village.
Image: © Michael Dibb
Taken: 4 May 2022
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Cannon next to Castle Road
An old cannon looks out onto the B2191 on a small green near the junction with High Street on the Westham side of Pevensey Castle.
Image: © Simon Carey
Taken: 17 Jan 2010
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Westham features [1]
This flint garden wall and red brick gate piers of number 96 High Street were probably built in the 18th century. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1184715
The village of Westham is adjacent to the village of Pevensey some five miles (8 km) northeast of Eastbourne. The village is located on a spur of land that was a peninsula that projected into a tidal lagoon, now reclaimed marshland. The village is part of the Greater Eastbourne conurbation, and much recent expansion has taken place. Today it is a commuter village.
Image: © Michael Dibb
Taken: 4 May 2022
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Westham Village sign
At the junction of Castle Road and (Westham) High Street.
Image: © David Anstiss
Taken: 29 Dec 2016
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Detail of mounted cannon
For many years this cannon stood by the roadside, on a bend, near Chilly Farm, almost exactly one mile north of its present position.
Image: © Peter Jeffery
Taken: Unknown
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The Old Corner House, High Street, Westham
Until the 1950s this was the A27 which reached this house then followed the castle walls around the northern side to Pevensey. Prior to that the road would have run through the west gate and across the castle grounds.
Image: © Simon Carey
Taken: 20 Feb 2010
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