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Star Brewery Gallery

A Grade II Listed Building in Lewes, East Sussex

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.8739 / 50°52'25"N

Longitude: 0.0097 / 0°0'34"E

OS Eastings: 541496

OS Northings: 110185

OS Grid: TQ414101

Mapcode National: GBR KQ2.38F

Mapcode Global: FRA B6XS.MLS

Plus Code: 9F22V2F5+GV

Entry Name: Star Brewery Gallery

Listing Date: 15 June 1984

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1353024

English Heritage Legacy ID: 293073

ID on this website: 101353024

Location: Lewes, East Sussex, BN7

County: East Sussex

District: Lewes

Civil Parish: Lewes

Built-Up Area: Lewes

Traditional County: Sussex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex

Church of England Parish: St John sub-Castro, Lewes

Church of England Diocese: Chichester

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Description


This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 November 2024 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards

TQ 4110 SW & TQ 4110 SE
9/92 & 10/92

LEWES
CASTLE DITCH LANE
Star Brewery Gallery

(Formerly listed as FISHER STREET (west side) Beard's Brewery)

15.6.84

GV
II

Brewery, now store. Later C18, altered in C19. Some rubble stone and some flint with brick dressings, but mostly brick, nearly all now painted. Plain tiled half-hipped roof.

Right half: Three gabled dormers, almost regularly spaced across roof. Two storeys with cellar and attic. Irregular fenestration with two windows on first floor to right and three windows on ground floor to left. Tall doorway to left reaching to eaves with boarded door and transom-light.

Left half: Painted brick with red brick to cross-wing above eaves level of main range to right. Plain tiled roofs with taller cross-gabled block to right and a weather-boarded louvred housing on ridge. Two small stacks to left. Two storeys with garret under gable to right, with large window in garret above. Irregular fenestration of two windows to left on first floor and one on ground floor. One doorway to left and one to right of centre.

Interior: Very large vaulted cellar to north. South part contains much brewery machinery of indeterminate date, including fermentation vats, malting vat and direct line-shafting for steam engine (at time of re-survey removed).

Listing NGR: TQ4149610185

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