Anne Of Cleeves' House

This is a house with a medieval cellar, a street-facing block dating to the late 15th or early 16th century, and a rear wing added in the late 16th century. It is located in Lewes, East Sussex. The construction combines timber framing with a ground floor of flint, brick, and stone dressings, the stone likely originating from the nearby Priory.

The prominent projecting porch, located to the right of the centre of the building, has two storeys and a dressed surround with a Tudor-arched doorway containing a boarded and ribbed door. The first floor of the porch is adorned with decorative bands of plain and scalloped tiles, while the gable of the projecting crosswing is also tiled. The internal coving of this recess features a flying wall-plate and curved brackets. The roof slopes are covered with Horsham slabs beneath plain tiles, and brick stacks are visible along the ridge where the main roof meets the crosswing’s ridge, and near the right end of the main ridge.

The house originated as a Wealden hall-house. The upper end was rebuilt in the early 17th century, with a stack added later in the same century. The house is two storeys high, with an attic in the crosswing. The front features an irregular arrangement of windows—four on the first floor and two on the ground floor—including a three-by-five-light mullion and transom window set within the recess. Windows are wooden, mullioned, and fitted with diamond lattice casements. The return front on the left side reveals flintwork and a tiled first floor alongside the front block, and a ground-floor window with four lights set within brick mullions and dressings. A single-storey addition with a tiled roof extends from the rear wing, which is plastered.

Inside, the main block retains a five-bay timber frame. A ground-floor room to the right of the entrance has a stone chimney-piece with a moulded Tudor-arched surround, cornice moulding, and a carved dais beam survives around the room. The hall is open to the roof, with the north wall coved to a moulded wall-plate, and a Tudor-arch decoration above the hall window on the south side. Curved braces and crown posts are visible on the east and west walls, alongside revealed brick stacks on the upper floor. A straight flight staircase with a mid-landing and a corniced upstanding rail comprised of early vase balusters and square newel posts (originally from No. 175, High Street) rises from the rear wing. One wing features a queen post roof with trenched purlins and 'original' mullioned and transomed windows, some of which have been restored. The house is named after Anne of Cleves, to whom the Manor was granted.