Key Words :- repository

Address :- 17 Tower Street, Rye, East Sussex
Grid Ref :- TQ 92156 20597
Co-ordinates :- Lat 50.952767 , Long 0.734435
Local Authority :- Rother District Council
Pre 1974 County :- East Sussex
Site Status :- Listed - Grade II
Historic England List No - 1390719,
Site Dates :- 1907 -

Description and History of Site:-
Built in 1907 for local carriers Wright and Pankhurst as a fireproof repository and stores.

Architect Philip Henry Tree of St Leonard's. Date 1907 with the initials W and P (for Wright and Pankhurst) with a carving of a galleon and dolphin.

Wright and Pankhurst were described as a motor-car proprietor from 1911 but their horsedrawn taxi service continued until the 1930s.

At the time the building was described in an advertising brochure as 'the only absolutely fireproof building of its kind in England - each floor heated by the most up-to-date scientific hot air apparatus and served by a gas powered lift to reduce the risk of handling'.

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