ÿþ<HTML LANG=en-GB> <HEAD> <TITLE>The Derelict Miscellany :: Stammerham Junction</TITLE> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="stammerham, lowerbarn, lower, barn, cottages, derelict, platforms, downslink, horsham, guildford, christ's, hospital, station, disused, railway, abandoned"> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Stammerham Junction is a tract of derelict land comprising the overgrown platforms of Christ's Hospital Station, a disused barn, an old railway cutting and two derelict cottages."> <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="ALL"> <link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> </head> <body link="#668b8b" bgcolor="darkgray" text="000000" vlink="#668b8b"> <center> <table width=1044> <tr><td> <table width=1044 cellspacing=0> <tr background="gam_print_ordsvywat-sun-171278517207606.jpg"> <td background="gam_print_ordsvywat-sun-171278517207606.jpg" align=right><A HREF="index.html"><img src=1.jpg border=0></a></td><td background="gam_print_ordsvywat-sun-171278517207606.jpg" align=center> <A indepth="true" STYLE="text-decoration: none" HREF="index.html"><h1>T H E &nbsp D E R E L I C T &nbsp M I S C E L L A N Y</H1></A> R e f l e c t i o n s &nbsp o n &nbsp f o r g o t t e n &nbsp a n d &nbsp a b a n d o n e d &nbsp s p a c e s <br><br> </td><td background="gam_print_ordsvywat-sun-171278517207606.jpg" align=left><A HREF="index.html"><img src=2.jpg border=0></a></td></tr></table> </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor="#EEE9E9"> <center> <a indepth="true" STYLE="text-decoration: none" href="http://derelictmisc.org.uk/index.html">{home} </a> &nbsp &nbsp <a indepth="true" STYLE="text-decoration: none" href="http://derelictmisc.org.uk/menu2.html">{menu} </a> &nbsp &nbsp <a indepth="true" STYLE="text-decoration: none" href="aboot.html">{about} </a> &nbsp &nbsp <a indepth="true" STYLE="text-decoration: none" href="cont.html">{contact} </a> &nbsp &nbsp <a indepth="true" STYLE="text-decoration: none"href="http://twitter.com/DerelictMisc" target="blank">{twitter}</a> &nbsp &nbsp <a indepth="true" STYLE="text-decoration: none" href="disc.html">{disclaimer}</a> &nbsp &nbsp <a href="#" STYLE="text-decoration: none" onClick="window.open('veh/index.html','', 'width=589,height=577,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no');return false;"> {rusty old cars}</A> &nbsp &nbsp <a href="#" STYLE="text-decoration: none" onClick="window.open('misc/menu.html','', 'width=870,height=482,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no');return false;"> {miscellany}</A> &nbsp &nbsp <a indepth="true" STYLE="text-decoration: none" href="links.html">{links}</a> &nbsp &nbsp <a indepth="true" STYLE="text-decoration: none" href="contrib.html">{contribute} </a> </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=#EEE9E9><table width=100% bgcolor="#EEE9E9"> <td width=13></td><td> <center> <br><u><font size="5">West Horsham (Stammerham Jct.)</font></u><br></center> <b>What:</B> Barn, cottages, railway station and trackbeds <BR> <b>Where:</B> Christ'S Hospital, West Sussex <BR> <b>Built:</b> Barn unknown; cottages 1860s; station 1902. <BR> <b>Architect:</b> Unknown <BR> <b>Abandoned:</b> station 1965; cottages 1990s; barn unknown <BR> <b>Listed:</b> No <BR><b>Visited:</b> 2004-2010<BR> <b>Last Known Condition:</b> Derelict <br><b>Page Updated:</b> February 2011<BR> <br> This small triangle of land delineated by Christ's Hospital Station, the old Guildford Line and the earthwork of a spur of rail removed in the 19th Century lies almost entirely derelict. In it are to be found a a pair of abandoned cottages, a disused barn and the remains of the Guildford platforms of Christ's Hospital Station.<br> Stammerham cottages stand in the middle of all this and were probably built at the same time as the railway in the 1850s. In 1902, with the relocation of Christ's Hospital School from London, a station was opened at Stammerham Junction east of the cottages, placing them at the end of the Guildford Platforms. Named Christ's Hospital (West Horsham), platforms were on the Arun Valley and Horsham-Guildford lines and the Station building was made particularly grand as the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company hoped that a new town would grow up there (Hence West Horsham). The new town never materialised, and the Horsham-Guildford Line was closed in 1965, leaving the westbound platforms obselete. At the same time, the station building was demolished, and the Arun Valley Line platforms were reduced in number to two. Only these and the disused Guildford platforms now survive, the rest having been filled in. <br>At some time later in the 20th century the cottages were renamed Lowerbarn Cottages and were remodelled to provide one with a bathroom. The cottages became too isolated when the old platforms were fenced off and were finally abandoned in the late 80s or early 90s.<br> <br> <center> <a href="#" onClick="window.open('planstam.htm','', 'width=591,height=388,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no');return false;"><u><font size=3>Click here to open a plan of the cottages.</u></A> <br> <center> <br> <a href="#" onClick="window.open('http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s.jpg','', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no');return false;"> <img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s.jpg" height="160" border="1" alt="The Cottages" /></a> <img alt="Gas supply." height=160 src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s1.jpg" border=1> <img alt="Cellar entrance and pond." height=160 src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s2.jpg" border=1> <a href="#" onClick="window.open('http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s3.jpg','', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no');return false;"> <img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s3.jpg" height="160" border="1" alt="From the west"></a> <br>Left to right: The Cottages viewed from the end of the Guildford Line platforms, Gas supply, fishpond and cellar entrance, and the cottages as viewed from the gardens.<br><br> <img alt="Stencilling." height=160 src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s4.jpg" border=1> <a href="#" onClick="window.open('http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s5.jpg','', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no');return false;"> <img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s5.jpg" height="160" border="1" alt="More stencilling" /></a> <a href="#" onClick="window.open('http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s6.jpg','', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no');return false;"> <img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s6.jpg" height="160" border="1" alt="Parlour" /></a> <img alt="Decapitated gnome." height=160 src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s7.jpg" border=1> <br>Left to right: Stencils, more stencils, the parlour, and a decapitated gnome.<br><br> <img alt="Chair and door to dining room." height=160 src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s8.jpg" border=1> <img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/bottles.jpg" height="160" border="1" alt="A store of empty bottles" /> <img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/Picture096.jpg " height="160" border="1" alt="Door back to Parlour"></a> <img alt="Dining room." height=160 src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s9.jpg" border=1> <br>Left to right: Chair and the door to the dining room, Empty bottles under the stairs, The door back to the parlour, and the dining room.<br><br> <img alt="Written on the ceiling just inside, we chanced a verse of 'Sur le pont d'Avignon,' but nothing happened." src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/graffd3.jpg" height=160 border=1> <img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/paradox.jpg" height=160 border="1" alt="Irony"> <img alt="Kitchen sink." height=160 src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s10.jpg" border=1> <a href="#" onClick="window.open('http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s11.jpg','', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no');return false;"> <img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s11.jpg" height="160" border="1" alt="Kitchen with copper tub and range" /></a> <br>Left to right: Song lyrics on the ceiling, Ironic graffiti on the dining room wall, The kitchen sink, and a range and washtub in the kitchen.<br><br> <img alt="Renovation supplies in the kitchen" height=160 src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s12.jpg" border=1> <a href="#" onClick="window.open('http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s13.jpg','', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no');return false;"> <img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s13.jpg" height="160" border="1" alt="Lean-to" /></a> <img alt="Shoe" height=160 src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s14.jpg" border=1> <img alt="Earth Closet" height=160 src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/priv.jpg" border=1><br>Left to right: Decorating supplies in the kitchen, The ramshackle lean-to, An abandoned shoe, and the earth closet.<br><br> </center></center> Inside the cottages we begin in the parlour. As in many former workers' houses there is no front hall; the door simply opened onto the front room. The huge slabs of stone which made up the floor are all in disarray, rocking and see-sawing as we tread on them. A door leads to a staircase which we'll come to later and another door leads to a dining room with a cupboard full of paint and old beer tops on one wall. Beneath out feet, the flagstone floor has been transformed into a sea of wall plaster and glass mixed with typical domestic odds and ends - a box of razor blades, a crushed Silver Jubilee biscuit tin and an empty picture frame with the cottages' address written on it in thick black marker. Another door straight ahead leads to a dark kitchen with an antiquated iron range and copper washtub on the back wall. On the floor are about five gas fires, (what they're doing here is anyone's guess), and the rusty skeleton of a chopper bike. A ledge along the back wall holds a range of bottles and jars, including two packs of soggy wallpaper paste (now leaking down the wall), one full bottle of 'Meltonian Suede cleaner' and a thick black glass bottle with 'RADIUM' ominously stamped into the cap. Finally there is a ramshackle extension strewn with shoes and all manner of other clutter and festooned with cobwebs and ivy. <br> <br> <center> <img alt="Stairs." height=160 src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s15.jpg" border=1> <img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/sassoon.jpg" height=160 border="1" alt="A war poem on the stairway." /> <a href="#" onClick="window.open('http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s16.jpg','', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no');return false;"> <img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s16.jpg" height="160" border="1" alt="Bedroom Fireplace" /></a> <a href="#" onClick="window.open('http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s17.jpg','', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no');return false;"> <img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/Derelict_horsham/stamm/s17.jpg" height="160" border="1" alt="Window and stencil" /></a> <br>Left to right: Stairs, A poem by Sassoon on the landing, The bedroom fireplace, and a window with a stencil.<br><br> </center> Stripped of carpet, the stairs creak sharply as we climb them. At the top is an empty bedroom, the floor strewn with plastic cider bottles and gaudy popular magazines. Out in the passage again there is a hatch leading to the loft, where a brief inspection reveals a large nest of wasps. A hole smashed in the plasterboard partition opposite the bedroom leads into the bathroom of the other cottage. <br> <br> <center> <a indepth="true" href="stam2.html"><b>NEXT PAGE</b></a> <br> <br> <center><b> <a href="index.html">Home..</a></b><br> <BR> </td><td width=13></td></tr></table> </TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#EEE9E9" ALIGN=CENTER> <font size=1>Derelict Miscellany. Website &amp; content Copyright D. A. Gregory 2005-Present unless stated to be otherwise.</font> </td></tr></table> </font> </body> </html>