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Ancaster House, Pulborough

building in Pulborough, Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ26278349 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ancaster House in Ancaster Place, Pulborough, West Sussex is a Grade II listed building.

The range dates from the 18th century, though the front, of ashlar and red brick dressing, dates from 1900.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ancaster House, Pulborough” is building in Pulborough, Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ancaster, House and Pulborough, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1900—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Ancaster, House and Pulborough is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “building in Pulborough, Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q26278349. Authority coordinates are 50.959, -0.510. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1900.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ancaster House, Pulborough”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ancaster House, Pulborough primary sources, Ancaster House, Pulborough archive and Ancaster research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ancaster House, Pulborough”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Ancaster House, Pulborough” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.