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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26575157

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)