Fairhall is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1952. House. 8 related planning applications.
Fairhall
- WRENN ID
- drifting-vestry-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fairhall, Southover High Street, Lewes, BN7 1HX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 409 096
- Coordinates
- 50.86894, 0.00186
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
House. Dating from the 16th century, with a 18th-century front and alterations made in the mid-19th century. It is timber-framed, with an added front block from the 18th century. The street front is faced with gault mathematical tiles, featuring a rendered plinth, even rendered rusticated quoins, and a wooden cornice with heavy brackets supporting a coped parapet that returns partly down the sides. A hipped slated roof has a tall rendered stack in the centre and a smaller stack to the left. Two segment-headed dormers are present. The house has two storeys and attics with an irregular fenestration of three windows on the first floor; a central margin-light sash is flanked by canted oriel bays with tented hoods and moulded soffits. The ground floor also has three windows, with the outer windows being margin-light sashes, and a tripartite margin-light sash to the left of centre. A recessed entrance is located to the right of centre, featuring Doric pilasters and a cornice above. The door is six-paneled with the upper pair of panels glazed. The right return front dates from the 16th century and was refaced in the 18th and 19th centuries; the ground floor is clad in channelled Fender on the left and flint with brick dressings on a squared stone plinth on the right. A plaster cove to the left mimics a jetty, with a jetty underbuilt in the centre. The left-hand part of the first floor incorporates gault mathematical tiles, continuing the front of the building around the corner. The remainder of the first floor is tile-hung, incorporating both scalloped and plain tiles. The fenestration is irregular, primarily consisting of 20th-century casements.
Local climate
Fairhall 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 — 19 transactions since 1998
- 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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