Town Hall
TOWN HALL, FISHER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1353072
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, FISHER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1353072
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, FISHER STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- TOWN HALL, 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:
- TOWN HALL, FISHER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, 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 41545 10154
Details
TQ 4110 SE LEWES HIGH STREET 10/246 (north side)
25.2.52 Town Hall
GV II
Inn, now Town Hall. C14, rebuilt above ground in the later C18, remodelled in 1893 by Samuel Denman in an eclectic Queen Anne - Baroque style. Red brick with much applied red brick and terracotta decoration. Rusticated pilaster order on ground floor with full entablature to rusticated first floor with raised panels around windows. Heavy entablature with swags in frieze of centre and flutings over windows, to first floor. Moulded cornice over second floor to parapet with recessed blank arched panels. Central aedicular feature over centre, with curved supports and triangular pediment over. Parapet hides slate roof with end stacks. 3 storeys; 8 bays, arranged 2 - 3 - 3, the central 3 projecting and narrower. Sashes throughout, those on ground and first floors without glazing bare. Single thermal window in centre of second floor and tall window with arched glazing directly below. Other windows all with cornice- hoods, those flanking centre with triangular pediments also. Arched window surrounds on ground floor, except to left of centre with plain surrounds. Arch mouldings in striped brick and stone with keystones carved as masks. Arches of centre rise from antae which carry bracket pilasters to heavy Doric entablature with cast-iron lamp holder over entrance. Paired half-glazed doors in centre. Half-glazed door on second bay from right. Interior: Undercroft of C14 with arch and tunnel-vault. Staircase: formerly at Slaugham Place, c.1620, installed in the Inn during the later C18. Almost certainly not in its original form, it is now an Imperial with a long first flight. High newel posts, tapering balusters with capitals, much figural carving. The later C19 and early C20 front of the Town Hall and Corn Exchange can also seen in Fisher Street.
Listing NGR: TQ4154510154
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 293228
- 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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