Numbers 1-14 Fizgerald House is a Grade II listed building in the Lewes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1989. Almshouse. 11 related planning applications.

Numbers 1-14 Fizgerald House

WRENN ID
blind-spindle-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lewes
Country
England
Date first listed
23 March 1989
Type
Almshouse
Source
Historic England listing

Description

Numbers 1-14 Fitzgerald House are former almshouses, dating to the late 19th century and built in a Gothic style. They are constructed of flint with red brick dressings and a tiled roof. The complex consists of two two-storey wings joined by an elaborate three-storey tower and a former separate house, which may have originally served as a warden’s house and is now linked by a modern brick wall.

The left-hand portion has an end chimney stack with terracotta chimney pots. The first floor has three pointed and latticed casement windows within gabled dormers; the ground floor has three latticed casements with a hood moulding, originally retaining corbels. The central tower is three storeys high, with an octagonal corner turret and crenellated parapet. The turret features two stone bands and lancet windows. The second floor to the right of the turret has a four-light window with mullions and transoms. The first floor has two windows, one two-light; the ground floor has a pointed archway with a stone shield bearing the Fitzgerald family motto, 'crom a boo'. Chimneys on the left and right have six elaborate terracotta chimney pots.

To the right is a two-storey wing with four brick dormers, each containing a lattice casement window to the first floor and a hood moulding, though the original corbels have been lost. The end right ground floor windows are 20th century replacements. Linked by a modern brick wall is the former warden’s house, also of the late 19th century and constructed with flint, red brick dressings, and a tiled roof with tall end brick stacks. The first floor has three casement windows, now largely 20th-century aluminium windows within the gables. A central window features a shield with the motto 'crom a boo.’ Ground floor windows include a hood moulding and retain corbels. The central arched doorway, originally with a hood moulding on brackets, has been built in.

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