Freemason'S Hall

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