Description

In the entry for

TQ 4110 SW LEWES HIGH STREET TQ 4109 NW (north side)

9/213 & 14/213 Shelley's Hotel & railing to south 25.2.52 (formerly listed as No 137)

In the eleventh row of the description "first floor" shall be amended to read "ground floor".

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TQ 4110 SW & TQ 4109 NW LEWES HIGH STREET 9/213 & 14/213 (north side)

25.2.52 Shelley's Hotel & railings to south (formerly listed as No 137) GV II*

House, later The Vine Inn, now hotel. C16, extended and refronted in mid C18 and altered in late C18. Rendered with rendered and stone dressings to south, red and blue mathematical tiles to north. Stone slate roofs. South (High Street) front: rendered with rendered dressings and modillioned cornice to stone slate roofs with large brick ridge stack to left and smaller one to right. Hipped ridge of wing to rear appearing over ridge to right of centre. Double depth block with projecting hipped entrance porch of two storeys lower than main ridge. 2 storeys; slightly irregular fenestration with 4 windows to right of central porch and 3 to left, here with blank bay between second and third windows from left. Glazing bar sashes in deep raised frames with keyblocks, except the third window from the left on the first floor, tripartite, and a tripartite window below with arched central light. First-floor glazing bar sashes on re-entrant angles of porch. Blank first-floor to front of porch with hotel-sign projecting. Entrance below with stone Tudor arch behind Doric columned surround with entablature-hood over. Outer doorway with Tudor-arched surround dated 1577 in left-hand spandrel. Early C17 moulded doorway inside porch. North (garden) front: two 2-storey hexagonal bays; hipped roof with bracketted cornice. Hall; Tuscan columned to right and rear with early C18 3-flight open square well stair to rear. Turned balusters, columnar newels, open ramped rail, mounting to first floor with dome and round lantern over. Bar; C17 panelling. Late C18 wide ogee screen arch on triple colonnettes to rear. Dining room; early C18 fireplace with Snelley crest over. Vestibule; Doorcases with moulded arch- itraves, cornices and fluted friezes. Fasces panelling. Moulded cornice. Conference room: Circa 1780 decoration with modillioned cornice, Vitruvian scroll dado, fire-surround with tapering Ionic pilasters and swagged frieze. Doorcase with moulded architraves, drop decoration and swagged frieze to cornices. Bedroom 10: Early C18 fire-surround with acanthus decoration and volute-brackets supporting corniced mantel-shelf. Various other early C18 fireplaces on first floor. Bedroom 11: C16 or early wall-paintings behind plasterboard cover. Putti desporting themselves among heraldic decoration. Bedroom 9: C17 panelling. Watercolour drawings of the interiors in 1865 are on diplay in the hotel bar. Spearhead railings on either side of porch. Wing to rear of 2 storeys and 5 bays in matching materials and style, probably early to mid C20. The gardens of Shelley's Hotel are said to have been laid out by Alfred Waterhouse during the mid to late C19.

Listing NGR: TQ4110409993

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