Outbuilding to Southover Manor and Arches to South is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1985. Outbuilding.

Outbuilding to Southover Manor and Arches to South

WRENN ID
ragged-basalt-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 October 1985
Type
Outbuilding
Address
Outbuilding to Southover Manor and Arches to South, Southover High Street, Lewes
OS grid reference
TQ 411 096
Coordinates
50.86885, 0.0043
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is an outbuilding to Southover Manor, originally serving as stables, and now functioning as a school building. It was constructed in 1862, with an arch dated 1845. The structure is made of flint, featuring red and blue brick quoins and dressings on a coursed dressed stone plinth. It has a moulded brick cornice and a hipped slate roof that includes three skylights on the north side. The building is two storeys high and has a four-window front, with quoined red brick surrounds, rendered cills, and segment-headed windows. The main entrance is located on the south side.

Attached to the east are four rusticated red brick gatepiers, each topped with scroll-shaped supporters and moulded stone copings. The central opening is wider, featuring paired boarded doors, while the narrower side openings have coped segment-headed arches, with the left side blocked. The wings to the south end in a brick archway, which is complemented by another arch to the south-west made of flint with moulded stone dressings, showcasing stiff-leaf carving that has been reused from the Priory.

Local climate

Outbuilding to Southover Manor and Arches to South 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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