Lewes Prison
LEWES PRISON, BRIGHTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1043892
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lewes Prison
- Statutory Address:
- LEWES PRISON, BRIGHTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1043892
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lewes Prison
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEWES PRISON, BRIGHTON ROAD
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:
- LEWES PRISON, BRIGHTON ROAD
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 40310 10108
Details
TQ 4010 SW & SE & LEWES BRIGHTON ROAD TQ 4009 NW (north side) 7/510, 8/510 & 12/510 Lewes Prison
II
Prison. 185O-55 by D.R. Hill of Birmingham, extended in 1868, with slight alterations since. Flint with stone and red brick dressings. Stone coped parapets to boundary walls. Stone coped parapets to building of main front, corbelled out on double-curved machicolations. Entrance front: central entrance with flanking towers, this flanked by further L-shaped towers to make symmetrical composition. Deep moulded round-arched entrance in centre with boarded and ribbed doors flanked by towers with single round-headed windows on ground floor, paired round-headed windows on first floor and two shorter individual brick-dressed windows on second floor. Outer towers connected to inner towers by short walls with round-arched doorways and boarded doors. Outer towers with projecting outer wings. Two storeys; paired round- headed windows on both inner and outer wings with moulded round-arched doorways in re-entrant angle. All windows on left-hand tower and those on second floor of central left gate-tower with margin-glazing. Large embossed octagonal glazing on lower floors of gate-towers. Second floor of righthand gate- tower and right outer tower, sashes and plain casements. Two wings inside prison behind gate-block, that to right now the hospital block, both of two storeys. Between and behind, cross-plan three-storey block with central tower with off-sets to north and south, corbelled parapet and lantern over. Chapel in wing projecting forward. Lower wing to rear of two storeys and eight bays. Main wings of 22 bays. All windows of horseshoe-arch type. Towers on roofs related to plenum chambers of former heating system. Boundary wall of irregular length, approximately 18 feet high. Flint with some patching in red brick and length of red brick at south west corner.
Listing NGR: TQ4031010108
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 292985
- 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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