Description

TQ 4109 NW LEWES HIGH STREET
14/189 (south side)

25.2.52 No 103

GV II

House. C16 with mid C18 front. Timber-framed with stuccoed front on plinth.
Rusticated quoins and coped parapet to plain tiled roof with red brick stack
behind ridge to right and two gabled dormers. 2 storeys and attics; regular
4 window front, glazing bar sashes in open boxes. Six-panel door with flat
hood on brackets over and shallow transom-light. Rear elevation tile-
hung with long two-storey wing, probably C16. Interior: rear wing timber-
framed with evidence of heavy scantling timbers. Bressumer to ground-floor
fireplace with crude acanthus decoration in spandrels and lintel moulding.
Stair: c1730-1740, small, square open-well stair with ramped rail and column
on vase balusters with square knops. Room to front of ground floor: early
C17 panelling, later painted. Eared and egg and dart decorated fire-surround
with marble staff-moulded inset and variant Greek-key frieze to cornice-mantel.
Very similar to fireplace on ground floor to School Hill House, (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TQ4121509958

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26636036

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)