Castle Precincts And Right Wing

Castle Precincts and Right Wing is a house built in the early to mid-18th century, partly on foundations from the late 11th or early 12th century. It was raised in the late 18th or early 19th century and altered in the late 19th century. The building features mathematically-tiled walls on a brick plinth on the ground and first floors, with a plain tile-hung second floor. It has a plain tiled hipped roof with tall projecting end stacks. The house is three storeys high, with a regular arrangement of three windows on the second floor and five windows on the first floor, all of which are glazing bar sashes in open boxes. The ground floor is irregular, featuring a sash window to the left, a rendered flat-roofed extension to the right of centre with a canted bay, and a half-glazed door under a timbered and gabled porch to the left of centre. There are also irregular extensions to the right and rear, which back onto Castle Lane. The vaulting under Castle Precincts appears to be the only remaining part of the domestic buildings of Lewes Castle. A section of wall is visible, made of large flints laid in a herringbone pattern, dating from the late 11th or early 12th century.