96 AND 98, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1980. Shop row.
96 AND 98, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- tall-gateway-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1980
- Type
- Shop row
- Address
- 96 AND 98, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information), 97, Lewes, BN7 1XH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 412 099
- Coordinates
- 50.87193, 0.00625
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 96 and 98 High Street is a house that has been converted into a row of shops. It dates back to the 17th century but was clad in the early 19th century. The building is timber-framed and stuccoed, with tile-hanging on the right side. It features a wooden eaves cornice on the right and a parapet on the left, all under a plain tiled roof that is hipped to the right. There is a stack located behind the center of the ridge and three dormers, with segment-headed shapes except for one flat-headed dormer on the right. The building has two storeys and attics, with a three-window front. On the first floor to the left, there are shallow polygonal bays, while on the right, there is a square bay. The ground floor has three 19th-century single shop-fronts. The left shop-front includes a half-glazed door on the left and a boarded door on the right, both under a single fascia-board supported by thin pilasters. The central shop-front has a door on the left under a single fascia-board supported by slim pilasters. The right shop-front features a large shop-window flanked by a half-glazed door, which has a pilastered door-surround with a triglyph frieze and an anti-bracketed cornice-hood.
Local climate
96 AND 98, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information) 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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