Bull House
BULL HOUSE, 92, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1191309
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bull House
- Statutory Address:
- BULL HOUSE, 92, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1191309
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bull House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BULL HOUSE, 92, 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:
- BULL HOUSE, 92, 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 41290 09967
Details
TQ 4109 NW LEWES HIGH STREET 14/181 (south side)
25.2.52 No 92 (Bull-House) GV II*
House, now restaurant. C15 with C16, C17, C18 and C19 alterations and additions and C16 rear block. Timber-framed and plastered with some close-studding exposed on left return-front. Plain tiled roofs, with twin spin roofs to rear and front gabled projection to road. Jetty over ground-floor on road-front, returning part way sown left return front; also on rear block to left. Both jetties boxed in, that to rear on brackets decorated with heads and dragon-post. Plain tiled roofs with tall stack on rear block and side stack to right. Hipped dormer on left side of projecting wing. 2 storeys and attics. Irregular fenestration; single glazing bar sash in attic of gable towards road with canted oriel on first floor over two ground-floor glazing bar sashes in open boxes. Single glazing bar sash on first floor of left return front-with small pointed window with Gothick glazing to right and two irregular ;glazing bar sashes below. Single glazing bar sash in open box on both floors of front face of rear wing. Half-glazed door at angle of front face of front wing with door at left of left return-front with pentice hood. Tom Paine lived here from 1768-1774.
Listing NGR: TQ4128809966
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 293163
- 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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