A high end bakery chain is making a fresh attempt to keep the modern glass doors it has installed in a listed building in Lewes, reports Sussex News.
Sussex News writes:
Gail’s Bakery ditched the old wooden doors on the corner of its new home on the corner of High Street and Friars Walk. The South Downs National Park threatened enforcement action…
The Grade II listed building was built in 1770, although the corner entrance was a later addition, from 1920 when it became a chemist. Gail’s says the wooden door itself was installed in about 1984, when the building was listed…
The LPA have not been given an opportunity to assess the doors… photos of the site show… they are certainly not beyond reasonable repair – this is therefore not a justification for their complete removal and replacement…’
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