12 and 13, Cliffe 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, restaurant.

12 and 13, Cliffe High Street

WRENN ID
iron-turret-evening
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, restaurant
Address
12 and 13, Cliffe High Street, Lewes, BN7 2AH
OS grid reference
TQ 420 102
Coordinates
50.87431, 0.01723
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 12 and 13 on Cliffe High Street is a house row that has been converted into a restaurant. It dates from the early 17th century and features 19th-century cladding. The building is timber-framed and has decorative tile-hung cladding. It has a gabled facade facing the street, adorned with decorative scalloped bargeboards, and plain tiled roofs. The structure has three gables, with the right one being lower. It is two storeys high with garrets and has a slightly irregular three-window front. There are two narrow double sash windows without glazing bars in the gables, and one on the first floor to the right. The centre and left sections have triple sash windows on the first floor, and there is one triple sash window on the ground floor to the left. In the centre, there is a small double shopfront with a half-glazed door, and a jetty extends over the ground floor.

Local climate

12 and 13, Cliffe 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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