Sopers is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
Sopers
- WRENN ID
- other-porch-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sopers, 28, High Street, Ditchling, Lewes, BN6 8TA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 326 152
- Coordinates
- 50.92188, -0.11469
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sopers is an 18th-century building located on the east side of Ditchling High Street. It is two storeys tall and features four windows. The structure is constructed of red brick and has a wooden eaves cornice, along with a tiled roof. The glazing bars are intact. The doorway is adorned with a projecting cornice above, a rectangular fanlight, and a door consisting of six fielded panels. Notably, the sculptor Eric Gill lived here from 1907 to 1912.
Local climate
Sopers 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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