Description

TQ 4109 NW LEWES SOUTHOVER HIGH STREET 14/394 (south side) Southover Priory Lodge

GV II

House, formerly rectory. C16, later altered probably in C18 and rebuilt circa 1900. Timber-framed. North front: Ashlar plinth with incised render to ground floor, porch and aprons to first floor windows. Plain and scalloped tilehanging to first floor. Plain tiled roof with coupled square end stacks with oversailing cornices. Pair of two-storey projecting bays with sables and carved bargeboards with finials. Half-timbering in gabled with brick infilling carried on carved bressumers on stone corbels. Small eyebrow dormer in centre of roof. 2 storeys and attics; 3 window front, 6-light transom and mullion windows in outer bays, 4-light mullioned window in centre over porch between projecting bays. Moulded cornice to porch with neo-Baroque profile of low-pitched scroll pediment. Square door-surround with inset Tudor- arched doorway and boarded and ribbed door. Flanking windows. Hoodmould carried over all three openings. Porch flanked by hopper-heads with Arts and Crafts decoration. To right dressed stone archway, probably C15 or C16 with moulded stone coping and Tudor-arched doorway. Boarded and ribbed door.

Listing NGR: TQ4102509589

External Links

• Wikidata Q26575157

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)