7 AND 9, WEST STREET
7 AND 9, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193322
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 7 AND 9, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 7 AND 9, WEST STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193322
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 7 AND 9, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7 AND 9, WEST 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:
- 7 AND 9, WEST 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:
- TQ4158010253
Details
In the entry for
TQ 4110 SE
10/499
LEWES
WEST STREET
(north side)
Nos 7 & 9
The description shall be amended by amending the the sentence beginning in the
17th row "Ground floor with large C20 glazed canted bay shop windows, and double
central wood and glass doors". The next sentence "Aluminium ... late C20" shall
be deleted.
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TQ 4110 SE
10/499
LEWES
WEST STREET
(north side)
Nos 7 & 9
GV
II
Co-operative stores, now shop. Circa 1900 in an Arts & Crafts style.
Red brick with stone dressings with glazed tile dado on ground floor
with deep coved fascia blind-box and pentice to plain tiled first floor.
Deep overhanging bracketted eaves to plain tiled roof. Half-timbered
and pebble-dashed slightly projecting crosswing on first floor and above
to left, with jettied gable, bargeboards, pendant and flagpole. Wide
wooden transom and mullion window with leaded lights and small inset
rounded oriel on wooden brackets in centre of upper part of window.
Tower to right with brick buttresses rising from first floor.
Buttresses to front and rear, joined at top by segmental arches, each
buttress with pyramidal tiled cap and finial. Asphalted roof of
concave hipped form. Three-sided bay on first floor between buttresses
with wood-framed leaded lights, rising via framed and pebbledashed section
to louvred bellcote and clock on two sides of triangle projecting from
central bay of frame on carved bracket. Small concave pyramidal roof
over bellcote. Two cast-iron brackets supporting eaves boxes to tower
roof. Ground floor with large glazed canted bay shop windows, with
glazing bars only in upper part, to right and left of centre.
Aluminium-framed glazing and door between of late C20. Arched entrance
to white tiled passage leading to rear of building at the left. Deep
2-storey brown brick wing to rear.
Listing NGR: TQ4158010253
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 293490
- 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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