Newhaven Downs Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Lewes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1976. Hospital. 4 related planning applications.
Newhaven Downs Hospital
- WRENN ID
- fading-merlon-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lewes
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1976
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Newhaven Downs Hospital, Church Hill, BN9 9HH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 441 010
- Coordinates
- 50.79093, 0.0431
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Newhaven Downs Hospital is a workhouse that has been converted into a hospital, built around 1835. The building features a rendered exterior that is grooved to resemble ashlar stone, with overhanging eaves and a slate roof. It is a square block facing northeast and consists of three storeys with eight bays.
On the second floor, there are segmental-headed openings with 12-pane sash windows, although the third and sixth bays are blocked. The first floor has square-headed 16-pane sash windows, with the third bay also blocked. The ground floor includes square-headed 20-pane sash windows, with the glazing bars removed in the fourth bay. There are entrances in the third and sixth bays, featuring semi-circular headed openings with fanlights and plank doors, which are obscured by flat-roofed porches added in the late 19th or early 20th century.
The right side of the building retains its original, though irregular, window arrangement, while other elevations have been altered or obscured by later additions.
Local climate
Newhaven Downs Hospital receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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