Crown Hotel is a Grade II* listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1952. Hotel.
Crown Hotel
- WRENN ID
- dark-panel-bone
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1952
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Crown Hotel, High Street, Lewes
- OS grid reference
- TQ 415 101
- Coordinates
- 50.87364, 0.01096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crown Hotel is a late 18th-century house that has been converted into a hotel. It features grey headers with red brick dressings and has a shallow paired bracketed cornice above a slate roof with end stacks. The building stands three storeys tall and has a regular five-window front. The windows are primarily glazing bar sashes with gauged heads, except for 20th-century casements on the second floor. There is a central doubled casement in a segment-headed surround on the second floor, and a central Venetian window on the first floor. The ground floor has a window to the extreme left in a raised surround, which includes a shallow casement and a night-safe in the blocked part below. The central entrance is framed by a paired pilaster surround with tall thin windows between the outer pilasters. The entrance features a central glazed door with a radiating fanlight in an arched surround, supported by rusticated pilasters and topped with a moulded arch that has a keystone.
Local climate
Crown Hotel 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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