103, HIGH STREET
103, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1353079
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 103, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 103, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1353079
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 103, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 103, 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:
- 103, 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 41218 09968
Details
TQ 4109 NW LEWES HIGH STREET 14/189 (south side)
25.2.52 No 103
GV II
House. C16 with mid C18 front. Timber-framed with stuccoed front on plinth. Rusticated quoins and coped parapet to plain tiled roof with red brick stack behind ridge to right and two gabled dormers. 2 storeys and attics; regular 4 window front, glazing bar sashes in open boxes. Six-panel door with flat hood on brackets over and shallow transom-light. Rear elevation tile- hung with long two-storey wing, probably C16. Interior: rear wing timber- framed with evidence of heavy scantling timbers. Bressumer to ground-floor fireplace with crude acanthus decoration in spandrels and lintel moulding. Stair: c1730-1740, small, square open-well stair with ramped rail and column on vase balusters with square knops. Room to front of ground floor: early C17 panelling, later painted. Eared and egg and dart decorated fire-surround with marble staff-moulded inset and variant Greek-key frieze to cornice-mantel. Very similar to fireplace on ground floor to School Hill House, (q.v.).
Listing NGR: TQ4121509958
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 293171
- 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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