Gables Cottage and Railings
GABLES COTTAGE AND RAILINGS, SOUTHOVER HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192777
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gables Cottage and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- GABLES COTTAGE AND RAILINGS, SOUTHOVER HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192777
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gables Cottage and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- GABLES COTTAGE AND RAILINGS, SOUTHOVER 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:
- GABLES COTTAGE AND RAILINGS, SOUTHOVER 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 41152 09643
Details
TQ 4109 NW LEWES SOUTHOVER HIGH STREET 14/419 (north side) Southover
No 55 (Gables Cottage) & railings
GV II
House. C17, refronted in mid C19. Timber-framed with cladding of hung tiles in decorative bands of plain, scalloped and beaver-tail tiles. Horsham slab roof with two symmetrical crosswings with plain bargeboards. Tall stack at left end of ridge. 2 storeys and attics; 3 window front, with 2 windows in gables, to left a single sash without glazing bars, to right a larger square oriel with flat head on curved brackets. Double sashes without glazing bars in outer bays on first floor with single sash without glazing bars between. Sashes without glazing bars on ground floor. Central boarded door. Mid - late C19 cast-iron railings to south with acorn heads, arched between, and dog-rails.
Listing NGR: TQ4115209643
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 293409
- 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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