Mounting Block, the Croft (Adjacent to County Hall)
MOUNTING BLOCK, THE CROFT (ADJACENT TO COUNTY HALL), HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391834
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Mounting Block, the Croft (Adjacent to County Hall)
- Statutory Address:
- MOUNTING BLOCK, THE CROFT (ADJACENT TO COUNTY HALL), HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391834
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Mounting Block, the Croft (Adjacent to County Hall)
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOUNTING BLOCK, 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:
- MOUNTING BLOCK, 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 40993 09942
Details
LEWES
518/0/10019 HIGH STREET 22-FEB-06 Mounting Block, The Croft (adjacent to County Hall)
GV II Mounting block. Probably late C19 as the house to which it belongs was built in 1899. EXTERIOR: Carved from one piece of stone in a rectangular shape with three square stone steps, the top step now triangular. HISTORY: The main house, "The Croft" was built in 1899 by Samuel Denman, a Brighton architect, as a family home for John Henry Every, the son of the founder of the Phoenix Foundry in Lewes, Mayor of Lewes between 1903-05 and a local benefactor. Besides the horse mounting block situated a few metres to the north west of "The Croft" the main entrance of the house has stone curbing stones either side of the main entrance to prevent damage by carriage wheels. In 1905 a purpose-built motor house was built to the north of the house. Both the Croft and the moter house are the subject of separate listings. STATEMENT OF IMPORTANCE: This free-standing horse mounting block is an interesting survival of the age of horse transport and part of a group of structures at "The Croft" which depict the transition from horse transport to motor transport at the turn of the C20.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 495228
- 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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