Priory Lodge
PRIORY LODGE, SOUTHOVER HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286575
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY LODGE, SOUTHOVER HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286575
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY LODGE, 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:
- PRIORY LODGE, 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 41025 09589
Details
TQ 4109 NW LEWES SOUTHOVER HIGH STREET 14/394 (south side) Southover Priory Lodge
GV II
House, formerly rectory. C16, later altered probably in C18 and rebuilt circa 1900. Timber-framed. North front: Ashlar plinth with incised render to ground floor, porch and aprons to first floor windows. Plain and scalloped tilehanging to first floor. Plain tiled roof with coupled square end stacks with oversailing cornices. Pair of two-storey projecting bays with sables and carved bargeboards with finials. Half-timbering in gabled with brick infilling carried on carved bressumers on stone corbels. Small eyebrow dormer in centre of roof. 2 storeys and attics; 3 window front, 6-light transom and mullion windows in outer bays, 4-light mullioned window in centre over porch between projecting bays. Moulded cornice to porch with neo-Baroque profile of low-pitched scroll pediment. Square door-surround with inset Tudor- arched doorway and boarded and ribbed door. Flanking windows. Hoodmould carried over all three openings. Porch flanked by hopper-heads with Arts and Crafts decoration. To right dressed stone archway, probably C15 or C16 with moulded stone coping and Tudor-arched doorway. Boarded and ribbed door.
Listing NGR: TQ4102509589
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 293384
- 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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