The FifteenthCentury Bookshop

The building came first by five centuries: a timber-framed, overhung corner house at the top of Lewes High Street, genuinely fifteenth-century, that would be listed in any guide even if it sold nothing. It sells old books — secondhand and collectable, with children's books the deep specialism — and has been in the same owner's hands since 1986, a four-decade stewardship the visitors' reviews still describe in the present tense. The stock leans toward the kind of book people buy to complete a childhood; the premises lean, structurally and without apology, toward the street.