Undercliffe House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1985. House.
Undercliffe House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-pedestal-yew
- 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
- Address
- Undercliffe House, Malling Street, Lewes
- OS grid reference
- TQ 423 105
- Coordinates
- 50.87683, 0.02213
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Undercliffe House is a house built around 1860-1870 in a neo-Gothic style. It features yellow brick with red brick bands on the ground floor and decorative dressings. There is a moulded string-course and a cogged brick cornice beneath the slate roofs. The building has finials on the half-hips over the bays, dormers, and tower. Its plan is highly irregular, with a tower positioned to the left at the angle between two-storey bays that face west and north.
To the right, there is a later 20th-century weatherboarded extension built on a brick and flint ground floor, topped with a steep French pavilion-type roof. The house has two storeys, with the tower rising to three storeys.
Prominent features on the front include an octagonal porch with a pyramidal cap, which is set before a canted bay located far back to the left, topped with a conical cap. The three faces above this bay are treated with half-hipped semi-dormers. Forward and to the right is a tall square tower with a banded ground floor, a single round window topped by double round windows above, and an arched window in the third stage below a steep Sompting cap. Further to the right is another canted bay treated similarly. There is a single arched window on the ground floor to the right, with a semi-dormer above it, and a glazed door to the left. The 20th-century extension to the right features a gabled semi-dormer, all designed in a Post-Modern style. All windows have round-arched heads and pointed-arched gauging in red and yellow brick stripes, complete with moulded impost bands.
Local climate
Undercliffe House 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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