Fitzroy Memorial Library
FITZROY MEMORIAL LIBRARY, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1043859
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Fitzroy Memorial Library
- Statutory Address:
- FITZROY MEMORIAL LIBRARY, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14749/18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1043859
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Fitzroy Memorial Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- FITZROY MEMORIAL LIBRARY, 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:
- FITZROY MEMORIAL LIBRARY, 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 41847 10206
Details
TQ 4110 SE
10/129
LEWES
HIGH STREET (south side)
Fitzroy Memorial Library
(Formerly listed as No 10 Fitzroy House)
11.5.70
GV II
Library, now house. 1862 by Sir George Gilbert Scott for the widow of the
Hon. Henry Fitzroy, M.P., in a neo-Gothic style. Red brick with stone dressings
and some black brick decorative patterning. Slate hipped roof with bell-cast.
2 storey front block with double height octagonal library to rear. Front
elevation: Stone dressed plinth, stone string-course with black brick chequering
below and heavily bracketted stone eaves cornice, again with some black brick
chequering below. Tall 3-shafted stack at left end with stone dressings and
caps. Finials and ridge cresting to roof, with tall central Gothic-style
aedicular cupola, with gables on 2 levels, finials at corners on lower level and
finial. 3 window front. Central gabled semi-dormer, with stone parapetted
gable and stone kneelers, supported on 2 marble columns with foliage capitals.
Pointed central arch with moulded surround, on 2 further marble columns,
flanking 2-light window with foliage capitals to surround, central marble column
with similar foliage capital, cusped heads to lights and quatrefoil window above.
2-light windows flanking on first floor in square surrounds, both of 2 lights with
cusped heads, central marble column with foliage capitals and decorative stone
lintel. 2-light windows on ground-floor flanking centre, both cusped lancets
in roll-moulded surrounds again with central marble columns and flanking capitals
in surrounds. Central moulded pointed-arched door surround, with inset cusped
decoration in arch, on 2 marble columns with foliage capitals. Large balcony
over with iron rails, on deep brackets, supported on pair of large marble columns
with foliage capitals. Paired boarded and ribbed doors. Right return front: 2
storeys with parapet and stone string. 3 bays with giant arched recesses, foliage
capitals supporting brick and stone striped arches. Plate traceried rose
windows in each arch. 2-light, round-headed windows below with impost bands,
carved blocks and central marble columns with foliage capitals. Interior:
Hall-way with with single flight stair to left, with neo-Gothic balustrade.
Octagonal reading room behind hall, top-lit with wooden galleries on columns,
all decorated with neo-gothic detail. C20 roof-lights.
Listing NGR: TQ4184710206
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 293111
- 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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