HORSMONDEN LEWES HEATH TQ 73 NW 4/68 Lewes Heath II House. C16 altered and extended c.1700 and early C19. Timber framed and clad with red and blue chequered brick on ground floor and tile hung first floor with plain tiled roof. Two storeys, basement and attic on plinth with bellcast to first floor and pulvinated moulded wooden eaves cornice with tripled modillions to half-hipped roof with central stack and 2 gabled dormers. Roof stepped down to right and gabled with end right stack. Regular fenestration of 5 cross windows on first floor and 4 on ground floor with central door of 2 moulded panels in bolection moulded surround with oval fanlight and pedimented hood on brackets. Basement openings to left. Rear wings finished in same materials/detailing. Interior: large scantling frames with gunstock jowled main posts in rear wings of at least 2 builds, both at least C17 or earlier. Front range with later frame and queen post roof; earlier features of this range include mullioned window exposed in rear wall and inglenook initialed I.B. (a fireback in the house bears the arms of John Browne of Horsmonden, gunfounder to Charles I and the Commonwealth and greatest of the C17 iron masters of the Weald). Listing NGR: TQ7037340766