Remains of Town Walls

REMAINS OF TOWN WALLS, WESTGATE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1353121
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:
Remains of Town Walls
Statutory Address:
REMAINS OF TOWN WALLS, WESTGATE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1353121
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:
Remains of Town Walls
Statutory Address 1:
REMAINS OF TOWN WALLS, WESTGATE STREET

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:
REMAINS OF TOWN WALLS, WESTGATE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
East Sussex
District:
Lewes (District Authority)
Parish:
Lewes
National Park:
South Downs
National Grid Reference:
TQ 41263 10023

Details

TQ 4110 SW LEWES WESTGATE STREET 9/498 (east side)

16.3.70 Remains of Town Walls

GV II

Remains of Town Walls. Foundations possibly of pre-Conquest date, with C13 and C14 town walls above. These in turn in part surmounted by C18 & C19 walls, restored in C20. Brick and flint, banded with brick in part, rebuilt in part in red brick. Circa 20-30 feet high, 50 yards long to the north from the rear of the High Street and then 100 yards along the side of the Castle site to Castle Lane.

Listing NGR: TQ4126310023

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Legacy System number:
293489
Legacy System:
LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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