Falmer Primary School and School House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. School, school house. 1 related planning application.

Falmer Primary School and School House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
Country
England
Type
School, school house
Address
Falmer Primary School and School House, South Street, Lewes, BN1 9PQ
OS grid reference
TQ 353 087
Coordinates
50.86262, -0.07795
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Falmer Primary School and School House, dated 1837 but altered later in the 19th century, features the buckle of the Arms of the Pelham family of Stanmer Park. The building is one storey with an attic and has four windows, along with four gabled dormers. It is finished in stucco with a tiled roof and casement windows. There is a gabled addition at the east end with one window; the ground floor is faced with flints and the upper part is tile-hung. At the west end, there is a similar addition for the schoolmaster's house, which is two storeys high with one window bay, also faced with flints on the ground floor and tile-hung on the first floor, topped with a gable.

Local climate

Falmer Primary School and School House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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