144, HIGH STREET

144, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1191507
Date first listed:
29-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:
144, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
144, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1191507
Date first listed:
29-Oct-1985
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
144, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
144, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
144, 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 41240 09986

Details

In the entry for

TQ 4110 SW LEWES HIGH STREET TW 4109 NW (north side)

9/220 & 14/220 No 145

The address shall be amended to read -

TW 4110 SW LEWES HIGH STREET TW 4109 NW (north side)

9/220 & 14/220 No 144

The sentence beginning in the fourth row of the description shall be amended to read "2 windows below, sqare oriel bay over ground floor extending to second floor with windows to right", and "window' on first floor below bay" shall be added after the end of the sentence in the eighth row.

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TQ 4110 SW & TQ 4109 NW LEWES HIGH STREET 9/220 & 14/220 (north side)

No 145

GV II

House, now shop. C18, extended and rebuilt in later C19. Red brick ground floor, plain tilehanging over. Plain tiled roof, half-hipped to front with gable jetty on beams and joist-ends. Stack on half-hip and stack to rear. 5 storeys and garret; single window in gable. 2 windows below, 2 to left in second storey. Square oriel-bay over ground floor with windows to right, transom and mullion windows with 6-light transom and mullion window on ground floor with panelled door to right flanked to left by small window. Single-storey oriel- bay on left return front on third floor with gable breaking into roof above. Interior: C18 staircase survives inside. The late C19 remodelling became necessary when the C18 house was truncated to allow road-widening; its stuccoed walls can be seen to the rear. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: TQ4124009986

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
293202
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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