Malling Deanery

MALLING DEANERY, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1353012
Date first listed:
25-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:
Malling Deanery
Statutory Address:
MALLING DEANERY, CHURCH LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1353012
Date first listed:
25-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:
Malling Deanery
Statutory Address 1:
MALLING DEANERY, CHURCH LANE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MALLING DEANERY, CHURCH LANE

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 41307 10938

Details

TQ 41 SW LEWES CHURCH LANE 3/502 (south side) Malling 25.2.52 Malling Deanery

GV II*

House, now divided. Circa 1660, possibly encasing earlier building. Red with some blue brick and red brick dressings. Red brick pilasters, set back at angles to allow rusticated red brick quoins. Modillioned wooden eaves cornice to steeply-pitched hipped plain tiled roof. 4 hipped dormers and tall brick ridge stacks with arched sides and oversailing cornices. to left of centre and at right end. 2 stacks on each side to rear also. U-plan with deep recess to rear. 2 storeys and attics. 7 bay north front, glazing bar sashes with painted lintels, the later eighteenth century replacements for cross-windows. Tripartite sash in third bay from right on ground floor. Projecting porch in third bay from left with flat head and parapet. Triangular pediment over round-arched door-surround. Panelled door. Later C18 rounded bow on lefthand return front. Interior: One room with later C17 foliate plaster ceiling of ramified oval form. Three-flight staircase with early C17 openwork splat balusters and closed string.

Listing NGR: TQ4130710938

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
293009
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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