Lamb House
LAMB HOUSE, 3, CHAPEL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190338
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Lamb House
- Statutory Address:
- LAMB HOUSE, 3, CHAPEL HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190338
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lamb House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAMB HOUSE, 3, CHAPEL HILL
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:
- LAMB HOUSE, 3, CHAPEL HILL
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 42205 10271
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/09/2012
TQ 4210 SW
11/34
25/3/52
LEWES
CHAPEL HILL
(east side) Cliffe
No 3 (Lamb House)
(Formerly listed as nos 3 and 4)
II*
House, C17, clad in mid C18. Red and blue brick chequer on ground floor with painted
tile - hanging on first floor. Underbuilt wooden bressumer to first floor jetty.
Wooden modillion eaves cornice to plain tiled roof with stack to right and hipped
dormer off-centre to left. Two storeys and attic; 3 window front, casements on
first floor, sashes on ground floor. Central panelled door with glazed upper panels
and flat hood on brackets over. Interior: there is an C18 partition made up of late
C17 Coromandel panels between hall and ground floor room, discovered in 1967 covered over with extracts from the Lewes Journal for 1794, 1795 and 1796; the panels to the corridor show a lotus pond and the panels to the room show a hunting scene.
Listing NGR: TQ4220510271
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 293004
- 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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