Lewes House
LEWES HOUSE, 32, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1353052
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Lewes House
- Statutory Address:
- LEWES HOUSE, 32, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1353052
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Lewes House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEWES HOUSE, 32, 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:
- LEWES HOUSE, 32, 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 41663 10147
Details
TQ 4110 SE LEWES HIGH STREET 10/139 (south side)
25.2.52 No 32 (Lewes House)
GV II*
House, now council offices. Circa 1720 to rear with front block of circa 1810. Grey headers with red brick dressings. Doubled brick quoins and plain parapet hiding roof; slate roofs with various end and rear brick stacks. 3 storeys; regular 5 window front, glazing bar sashes. Central entrance up eight steps. Rusticated plastered entrance arch, panelled door and arched overlight with octagonal lantern. Deep porch with Ionic columns and open triangular pediment. Paved space either side of door with iron arrow-head railed surround. Garden front: Early C18. Grey headers with red dressings, and red brick central projection. Plain tiled hipped roof with tall ridge stack to left. 2 storeys with plinth with roll-moulding, cornice-band and cornice to parapet. Central pedimented projection. 2 bays to left of projection, 3 bays on projection, the outer ones narrow, and 3 bays to right of projection, with 2 wide windows on ground-floor. Glazing bar sashes with gauged heads. Central panelled door with cast-iron dog-gate; moulded blocked surround with triple keystone supporting cornice moulding. 2-storey early C19 wing to left projecting forward with hipped roof and central hipped projection. Half-glazed door in round-arched surround to right. This wing, faced in knapped flints to the west, ends in brick gate-pier to stable court. Interior: Committee room: wide segmental arch recess with colonettes supporting surround. Panelled fire-surround. Coved cornice. Hall: groin vault on brackets with triglyph decoration. Screen to rear stair-hall with colonnade of attached Doric order with triglyph and metope frieze. Registry: Wide segmental arch recess at end with colonnettes supporting surround.Fireplace with doubled columns supporting decorative mantel with swags and rustic scene. all panelling and acanthus bracket cornice. Local land charges office: Bracketted cornice. Marble fire-surround with fluted pilasters and eared and kneed overmantel, flanked by pair of pier glasses in eared and kneed surrounds. Window shutters. Staircase: 3-flight rectangular newel.Turned balusters with square knops and fluted columnar newels. Ramped flat hand-rail and foot scroll. Greek key decoration on string of landing. Bracketted cornice. Chief executive's secretary's office: Eared fire-surround with bolection mould supporting mantel shelf and eared and kneed overmantel with greek key decoration. Moulded cornice. Chief executive's room: Eared fire-surround with dentilled mantel. Electoral Registration office: Late C18 fire-surround with swags and central panel of nymphs under mantel. District sectretary's office: Marble fire- surround with dentilled mantel. More fireplaces on 2nd floor of north block.
Listing NGR: TQ4166310147
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 293121
- 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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