Star Brewery Gallery
Star Brewery Gallery, Castle Ditch Lane, Lewes, BN7 1YJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1353024
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Star Brewery Gallery
- Statutory Address:
- Star Brewery Gallery, Castle Ditch Lane, Lewes, BN7 1YJ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1353024
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Star Brewery Gallery
- Statutory Address 1:
- Star Brewery Gallery, Castle Ditch Lane, Lewes, BN7 1YJ
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:
- Star Brewery Gallery, Castle Ditch Lane, Lewes, BN7 1YJ
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 41496 10185
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 November 2024 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
TQ 4110 SW & TQ 4110 SE
9/92 & 10/92
LEWES
CASTLE DITCH LANE
Star Brewery Gallery
(Formerly listed as FISHER STREET (west side) Beard's Brewery)
15.6.84
GV
II
Brewery, now store. Later C18, altered in C19. Some rubble stone and some flint with brick dressings, but mostly brick, nearly all now painted. Plain tiled half-hipped roof.
Right half: Three gabled dormers, almost regularly spaced across roof. Two storeys with cellar and attic. Irregular fenestration with two windows on first floor to right and three windows on ground floor to left. Tall doorway to left reaching to eaves with boarded door and transom-light.
Left half: Painted brick with red brick to cross-wing above eaves level of main range to right. Plain tiled roofs with taller cross-gabled block to right and a weather-boarded louvred housing on ridge. Two small stacks to left. Two storeys with garret under gable to right, with large window in garret above. Irregular fenestration of two windows to left on first floor and one on ground floor. One doorway to left and one to right of centre.
Interior: Very large vaulted cellar to north. South part contains much brewery machinery of indeterminate date, including fermentation vats, malting vat and direct line-shafting for steam engine (at time of re-survey removed).
Listing NGR: TQ4149610185
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 293073
- 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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