Pelham House

Pelham House is a large red-bricked building at St Andrews Lane in Lewes, East Sussex. The building which was the headquarters of East Sussex County Council from 1938 to 1968, is a Grade II listed building.
The house was built for George Goring, one of the two members of parliament for Lewes, in about 1579. It remained in the Goring family until 1649, when it was sold to Peter Courthope, who served as Sheriff of Sussex in 1650. Courthope in turn sold it to Sir Thomas Pelham, one of the members of parliament for Sussex, in 1653. It remained in the Pelham family and, after it passed to Thomas Pelham of Catsfield in 1725, he arranged for it to be re-fronted in the classical style in the mid-18th century. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing north; the centre section of three bays featured a doorway with a fanlight on the ground floor with a large cast iron lamp above; there was a deep recess on the first floor with a large rounded headed window in the centre flanked by two square windows.

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