Elm Trees House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1985. Cottage.
Elm Trees House
- WRENN ID
- gentle-corner-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Elm Trees House, Southover High Street, Lewes, BN7 1JB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 413 097
- Coordinates
- 50.86997, 0.00678
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elm Trees House is a barn that has been converted into a cottage, dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It underwent conversion in the 19th century and has seen alterations in the 21st century. The building features a timber frame that is rendered, topped with a plain tiled roof that is hipped to the south. There is a single ridge stack to the south, one stack behind the ridge in the center, and another in front of the ridge to the north. The house has three gabled dormers and a single end stack to the south. It is a single storey with an attic, and includes a canted bay to the left with a flat head. The center has a deep recess with a bressumer supported on timber piers, and there are paired windows beside the door in the recess. To the east, there is a long painted brick wing of one storey that projects out, but this part is not listed.
Local climate
Elm Trees House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
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