| P number: | P211011 |
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| Old photograph number: | A11237 |
| Caption: | Old Possingworth Manor House, near Blackboys, East Sussex. |
| Description: | This large and elaborate Elizabethan manor house was built in the early 16th century using local Ashdown Sandstone quarried close to the house. Most large houses of this type generally sourced their building material from close to the construction site to avoid the considerable expense involved in transporting such heavy material like stone across the poorly constructed roads of the time. This Manor House at Possingworth is constructed of fine-grained sandstones from the Lower Cretaceous, Ashdown Formation. The sandstone was probably dug from the old quarry behind the house. The bricks and tiles will also have been manufactured locally from clays in this district. The fine brown sandstones of the Ashdown Formation form one of several sandstone units in the Lower Cretaceous of the Weald that were important in the past as local buildings stones. Other sandstone include the Ardingley Sandstone (Lower Tunbridge Wells Sand), Horsham and Cuckfield stones. |
| Date taken: | 01/01/1970 |
| Photographer: | Jeffery, C.J. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| X longitude/easting: | 553500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 120500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 352.73 KB; 1000 x 796 pixels; 85 x 67 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 211 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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