Freemason's Hall
FREEMASON'S HALL, 148, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1191537
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Freemason's Hall
- Statutory Address:
- FREEMASON'S HALL, 148, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1191537
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Freemason's Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- FREEMASON'S HALL, 148, 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:
- FREEMASON'S HALL, 148, 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 41274 09983
Details
TQ 4109 NW LEWES HIGH STREET 14/222 (north side)
25.2.52 No 148 (Freemason's Hall)
GV II
Freemason's Hall. Dated 1868. Yellow stock brick with red brick and some stone dressings. Plain tiled roof with gable end to street. Tumbled gable parapets with stone coping and kneelers. Cast-iron gable finial. 2 storeys; 2 windows, wooden cross windows above in pointed arch surrounds with stone inserts in arches, decorated with inlaid foliage. Relieving arch between with decorative stone keystone. Decorative polychromatic surround to datestone between inscribed '1868'. Tilework impost band between windows and continuing to either side. Stone inscribed 'Freemason's Hall/Erected 1797/Rebuilt 1868' between windows at lower level. 3-light window on ground floor to right with stone rounded Caernarvon-arched heads, segmental relieving arch and polychromatic brickwork in arch. Pair of pointed-arched boarded doors in entrance to right with brick reveals, triangular hood-mould and polychromatic brickwork between arch and hood-mould. Spiral downpipes to left and right with decorative brackets. The party wall between this building and No 147 to right (q.v.) contains considerable remains of the medieval West Gate, pulled down in 1777.
Listing NGR: TQ4127309990
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 293204
- 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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