Crown Hotel
CROWN HOTEL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1191714
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Crown Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- CROWN HOTEL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1191714
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Crown Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROWN HOTEL, 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:
- CROWN HOTEL, 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 41584 10164
Details
In the entry for
TQ 4110 SE LEWES HIGH STREET (north side)
10/249 Crown Hotel (formerly listed as Crown Hotel 25.2.52 and No 191)
The address shall be amended to read - by inserting "Cash dispenser " instead of "night safe" on seventh row.
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TQ 4110 SE LEWES HIGH STREET 10/249 (north side)
25.2.52 Crown Hotel (formerly listed as Crown Hotel md No 191)
GV II*
House, now hotel. Late C18. Grey headers with red brick dressings. Shallow paired bracketted cornice to slate roof with end stacks. 3 storeys; regular 5 window front, glazing bar sashes with gauged heads, except C20 casements on second floor. Central doubled casement on centre of second floor in segment-headed surround. Central Venetian window on first floor. Window to extreme left on ground floor in raised surround, with shallow casement and night-safe in blocked part below. Central entrance with paired pilaster surround with tall thin windows separating the outer pilasters. Central glazed door with radiating fanlight in arched surround with rusticated pilasters supporting moulded arch with keystone.
Listing NGR: TQ4158410164
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 293231
- 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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