Description

TQ 92 SW
776/1/10016
26-SEP-00

RYE
LION STREET
21

II

House and shop. Late C19. Built of red brick with tiled roof in Neo-Georgian style. Two storeys: three windows. The upper floor has a parapet with panels, moulded brick eaves cornice and four pilasters with moulded brick capitals. Twelve-pane sashes with moulded architraves and moulded brick cills. Wrought iron shopsign bracket with scrollwork and cast iron lampbracket. The principal feature of interest is the shopfront which has a deep fascia, end pilasters, round-headed arches with keystones, pilasters with foliate capitals and carved wooden panels with peardrop and scrollwork patterns. The centre has a semi-circular display window with 4 panels and there is a mirrored ceiling and tessellated pavement with Greek key design and marble front step.
INTERIOR: Original wooden cornice and beaded tongued and grooved panelling on the left hand side. The rear of the shop retains three windows with Art Nouveau glass with frosted glass, leaded lights and patterns of diamonds, trefoils and floral decoration. The staircase has square newel posts and solid balustrading but the bottom part has stick balusters and the remainder may have been boarded over.

Listing NGR: TQ9213220372

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26668730

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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