Anne of Cleves House
Anne of Cleves House, 52, Southover High Street, Lewes, BN7 1JA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1043733
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Anne of Cleves House
- Statutory Address:
- Anne of Cleves House, 52, Southover High Street, Lewes, BN7 1JA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1043733
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Anne of Cleves House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Anne of Cleves House, 52, Southover High Street, Lewes, BN7 1JA
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Anne of Cleves House, 52, Southover High Street, Lewes, BN7 1JA
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 41113 09633
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 January 2025 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standard
TQ 4109 NW
14/417
LEWES
Southover
SOUTHOVER HIGH STREET (north side)
No 52, Anne of Cleves House
(formerly listed as Anne of Cleeves' House, SOUTHOVER HIGH STREET (north side), previuosly listed as No 52)
25.2.52
GV
II*
House. C14 cellar with late C15 or early C16 street-front block, late C16 wing to rear and porch dated 1599. Timber-framed with ground floor of flint with some brick and some stone dressings, the stone squared and dressed and probably from the Priory (qv).
Projecting porch of two storeys to right of centre with dressed surround and chamfered Tudor-arched doorway on ground floor with boarded and ribbed door recessed. Tilehung in decorative bands of plain and scalloped tiles on first floor to right and left of two storey recess, to left on projecting gabled crosswing. First floor of porch with exposed timber-framing, plaster infilling and gable in roof. Recess coved with flying wall-plate and curved brackets. Horsham slabs on lower slopes of roof with plain tiles above. Brick stacks on ridge at junction of main ridge with ridge of crosswing and towards right end of main ridge.
Former Wealden hall-house with upper end rebuilt in early C17 and with stack added in later C17. Two storeys with attic in crosswing only; four window first floor and two window ground floor, arrayed irregularly, with a three by five light mullion and transom hall window in recess. Woodened mullioned windows with diamond lattice casements. Lefthand return front: flint with tiled first floor to side of front block; ground floor window of four lights with brick mullions and dressings. Wing to rear plastered with single-storey addition with tiled roof along side of wing. Two storeys; irregular fenestration.
Interior: five bay timber-frame to main block. Ground-floor room to right of entrance with stone chimney-piece with moulded Tudor-arched and shouldered surround, cornice moulding above. Hall: carved dais beam, surviving in whole or in parts round room, brattished over fireplace. Hall open to roof with wall coved to moulded wallplate on north side. Tudor-arch decoration to wallplate over hall window on south side. Curved braces and crown posts visible on east and west walls. Room upstairs: revealed pair of inseted brick stacks. Four chamfered crown-posts visible, all with larger downward and smaller upward braces. Scarf-jointed butt-purlins. Rear wing: straight flight stair with mid-landing. Corniced upstanding rail on early vase balusters, probably early C17, and square newel-posts with globe finials, all formerly at No 175, High Street. Four bay wing with queen post roof with trenched purlins. Various 'original' ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed windows, some restored. House named after Anne of Cleves to whom the Manor was granted.
Listing NGR: TQ4111309633
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 293407
- 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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