The Pigeon House
THE PIGEON HOUSE, 51B, SOUTHOVER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286714
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Pigeon House
- Statutory Address:
- THE PIGEON HOUSE, 51B, SOUTHOVER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286714
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1985
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Pigeon House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PIGEON HOUSE, 51B, SOUTHOVER 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:
- THE PIGEON HOUSE, 51B, SOUTHOVER 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 41086 09637
Details
In the entry for
TQ 4109 NW LEWES POTTER'S LANE (west side) Southoven
14/346 No 51A
The address shall be amended to read
TQ 4109 NW LEWES SOUTHOVER STREET (north side)
14/346 No 51B (The Pigeon House)
First sentence in the description shall be amended to read "House, fronting Potter's Lane (West side).
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TQ 4109 NW LEWES POTTER'S LANE 14/346 (west side) Southover
No 51A
GV II
House. Late C16 or early C17, restored in C20. Timber-framed with flint and brick ground floor and close-studded first floor with mid-rails across centre and below eaves, acting as cill and lintel bands. Plain tiled roof with stack behind ridge. Gabled dormer to left of centre. 2 storeys with jetty over ground floor on curved brackets. 2 window first floor and 3 window ground floor, lattice casements; door to left of centre.
Listing NGR: TQ4108609637
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 293331
- 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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