48, Southover High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1985. House. 8 related planning applications.
48, Southover High Street
- WRENN ID
- dusk-flint-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- 48, Southover High Street, Lewes, BN7 1HX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 410 096
- Coordinates
- 50.86901, 0.0035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house dating from the early 19th century, with later 19th-century alterations. It is constructed of grey headers with red brick quoins and dressings. The roof is covered in shallow, plain tiles, features a flat wooden eaves soffit and has tall end stacks. A dormer window is located to the left of centre.
The house is three storeys and an attic, and has an irregular arrangement of windows: three on the second floor, three on the first floor, and four on the ground floor. The second floor has two sash windows to the right. A large, canted oriel bay window, supported by moulded brackets and a transom, extends from the first to the second floor to the left. The ground floor has mullion windows above the entrance on the left and a three-light by seven-high window to the right, rising from the ground to the first floor. The central window has engraved glass. An arched entrance, with key- and impost-blocks, is located to the right of centre, and features a recessed panelled door with a fanlight above.
Local climate
48, Southover High Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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