St Johns Timbers

49 AND 50, SOUTHOVER HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1043732
Date first listed:
25-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:
St Johns Timbers
Statutory Address:
49 AND 50, SOUTHOVER HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1043732
Date first listed:
25-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:
St Johns Timbers
Statutory Address 1:
49 AND 50, SOUTHOVER HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:
ST JOHNS, SOUTHOVER HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 3:
TIMBERS, SOUTHOVER HIGH STREET

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
49 AND 50, SOUTHOVER HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
ST JOHNS, SOUTHOVER HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
TIMBERS, SOUTHOVER HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
East Sussex
District:
Lewes (District Authority)
Parish:
Lewes
National Park:
South Downs
National Grid Reference:
TQ 41083 09630

Details

TQ 4109 NW LEWES SOUTHOVER HIGH STREET 14/415 (north side) Southover 25.2.52 Nos 49 & 50, (St Johns & Timbers)

GV II

House, now cottage pair. C16, restored in C19 and C20. Timber-framed with painted brick ground floor and close-studded first floor with rendered infilling. Plain tiled roof with end stacks. 2 storeys with continuous jetty over ground floor, slightly stepped up to right; irregular fenestration of 4 windows on first floor and 4 on ground floor, lattice casements, the left pair on ground floor bow windows recessed within deep window reveals, to right a small canted bay beneath the jetty. Ovolo-moulded mullioned window to right of almost central door.

Listing NGR: TQ4108309630

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
293405
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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