The Former Motor House, the Croft (Adjacent to County Hall)
THE FORMER MOTOR HOUSE, THE CROFT (ADJACENT TO COUNTY HALL), HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391833
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-2006
- List Entry Name:
- The Former Motor House, the Croft (Adjacent to County Hall)
- Statutory Address:
- THE FORMER MOTOR HOUSE, THE CROFT (ADJACENT TO COUNTY HALL), HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391833
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-2006
- List Entry Name:
- The Former Motor House, the Croft (Adjacent to County Hall)
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FORMER MOTOR HOUSE, THE CROFT (ADJACENT TO COUNTY 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:
- THE FORMER MOTOR HOUSE, THE CROFT (ADJACENT TO COUNTY 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 41020 09962
Details
LEWES
518/0/10018 HIGH STREET 22-FEB-06 (South side) The former Motor House, The Croft (adj acent to County Hall)
GV II Purpose-built motor house. Built in 1905. EXTERIOR: One storey red brick with a gabled tiled roof. The main entrance front facing west has wooden bargeboards to the gable end, pierced by a hipped tiled pentice beneath a triangular three-light fixed casement. Below is a triple sliding door for vehicle access with opaque glass of ten panes to the upper part and plank panelling below. The south elevation has a battered brick buttress with sloping tiled cap, a pedestrian entrance with a plank door and wooden casement window. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: The main house, "The Croft", which adjoins to the north, and to which the motor house is tenuously linked by a section of pipe, was built in 1899, architect Samuel Denman as a family home for John Henry Every, the son of the founder of the Phoenix Foundry in Lewes. The Motor House was built in 1905. Previously horse drawn traffic had been used, as the curbing stones at the sides of the main entrance and the stone mounting block a few metres north west of the main entrance serve to indicate. The stone mounting block is the subject of a separate listing. STATEMENT OF IMPORTANCE: An early and externally unaltered example of a purpose-built motor house which forms part of a group of structures around "The Croft" which demonstrate the transition from horse transport to motor transport. SOURCES: Information about the date of the motor house on a panel in "The Croft".
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 495227
- 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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