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

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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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