Newcastle House
NEWCASTLE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1043779
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Newcastle House
- Statutory Address:
- NEWCASTLE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1043779
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Newcastle House
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEWCASTLE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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:
- NEWCASTLE HOUSE, 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 41480 10099
Details
In the entry for
TQ 4110 SW & TQ 4110 SE LEWES HIGH STREET (north side) 9/242 & 10/242 Newcastle House
The address shall be amended to read by inclusion of previous listing date
TQ 4110 SW & TQ 4110 SE LEWES HIGH STREET (north side)
9/242 & lO/242 Newcastle House 25.2.52
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TQ 4110 SW & TQ 4110 SE LEWES HIGH STREET 9/242 & 10/242 (north side)
Newcastle House
GV II
House, now extension of the Law Courts. 1928 by Sir Reginald Blomfield, broadly following the lines of the previous Newcastle House, built in 1717 for Benjamin Court. Portland stone with Portland stone plinth, band, quoins and dressings. Modillioned eaves cornice to plain tiled roof. Main block with narrow extensions, one recessed to right and wider one recessed to left. 2 storeys and attics with tall modillioned pediment in centre of main block on shallow central projection with rusticated quoins. Sundial marked 'CARPE DIEM' in centre of pediment. 5 traingular pedimented dormers, one each side of pediment, with one on wing to left and two to right. Two large stone ridge stacks. 2 - 2 - 3 - 2 - 1 windows, the central 7 projecting forward, its roof appearing as hipped against the slightly recessed roofs of the wings. Tall glazing bar sashes with gauged stone heads and raised keystones. Tall entrance in centre of central block with moulded surround and projecting keystone, topped by broken segmental pediment with scutcheon in break. Interior:some original features, including the principal panelled room and most of the main staircase, were reinstated.
W.H. Godfrey, Newcastle House, Sussex Archaeological Society, c.1930.
Listing NGR: TQ4148010099
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 293224
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
(1930)
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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