KEEP TO LEWES CASTLE

KEEP TO LEWES CASTLE, CASTLE GATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1043894
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: KEEP TO LEWES CASTLE
Statutory Address:: KEEP TO LEWES CASTLE, CASTLE GATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1043894
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: KEEP TO LEWES CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: KEEP TO LEWES CASTLE, CASTLE GATE

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: KEEP TO LEWES CASTLE, CASTLE GATE

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 41327 10068

Details

TQ 4110 SW LEWES CASTLE GATE 9/22 (west side)

25.2.52 Keep to Lewes Castle n

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Castle. Circa 1100 for William de Warenne with two C13 turrets added by John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey. Flint with stone dressings, bands and copings, as well as quoins. Some repairs in brick. Shell keep with hexagonal towers to south and west connected by wall twenty yards long with remains of wall continuing to east and north for approximately twenty-five yards. West tower: three stages, with stone bands between. Embattled with loops in corners of third stage, shallower second stage and loops in wall-faces of lowest stage, replaced by tall narrow window in south-west face. South tower: four stages. Embattled above with stair-turret to north, rising slightly above tower with flagpole. Windows in top-stage, paired about corner. Shallower second and third stages with paired windows in second stage, in faces under string dividing this stage from the third above. Battered walls below, up from motte. Court: stair-turret against south tower with two Gothick-glazed pointed-arched windows. Single-storey flat-roofed and embattled block against entrance to south tower with pointed arched entrance in east face and pointed-arched Gothick-glazed window in front face. Pointed arched entrance to recess to right. West tower: deep recessed entrance, narrowing with chalk blocks below impost level.

Listing NGR: TQ4132710068

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Legacy System number:: 292991
Legacy System:: LBS

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