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Latitude: 50.8721 / 50°52'19"N
Longitude: 0.0065 / 0°0'23"E
OS Eastings: 541274
OS Northings: 109984
OS Grid: TQ412099
Mapcode National: GBR KQ2.8GK
Mapcode Global: FRA B6XS.LCW
Plus Code: 9F22V2C4+RH
Entry Name: Freemason's Hall
Listing Date: 25 February 1952
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1191537
English Heritage Legacy ID: 293204
ID on this website: 101191537
Location: Lewes, East Sussex, BN7
County: East Sussex
District: Lewes
Civil Parish: Lewes
Built-Up Area: Lewes
Traditional County: Sussex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex
Church of England Parish: Lewes St Michael
Church of England Diocese: Chichester
Tagged with: Masonic temple
TQ 4109 NW LEWES HIGH STREET
14/222 (north side)
25.2.52 No 148 (Freemason's Hall)
GV II
Freemason's Hall. Dated 1868. Yellow stock brick with red brick and some
stone dressings. Plain tiled roof with gable end to street. Tumbled gable
parapets with stone coping and kneelers. Cast-iron gable finial. 2 storeys;
2 windows, wooden cross windows above in pointed arch surrounds with stone inserts
in arches, decorated with inlaid foliage. Relieving arch between with
decorative stone keystone. Decorative polychromatic surround to datestone between
inscribed '1868'. Tilework impost band between windows and continuing to either
side. Stone inscribed 'Freemason's Hall/Erected 1797/Rebuilt 1868' between
windows at lower level. 3-light window on ground floor to right with stone
rounded Caernarvon-arched heads, segmental relieving arch and polychromatic
brickwork in arch. Pair of pointed-arched boarded doors in entrance to right
with brick reveals, triangular hood-mould and polychromatic brickwork between
arch and hood-mould. Spiral downpipes to left and right with decorative
brackets. The party wall between this building and No 147 to right (q.v.)
contains considerable remains of the medieval West Gate, pulled down in 1777.
Listing NGR: TQ4127309990
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