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
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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