Lamb House is a Grade II* listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1952. A Georgian House. 1 related planning application.
Lamb House
- WRENN ID
- late-pinnacle-wren
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1952
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Lamb House, 3, Chapel Hill, Lewes, BN7 2BB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 422 102
- Coordinates
- 50.87445, 0.01982
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lamb House is a 17th-century house that was clad in the mid-18th century. The ground floor features a red and blue brick chequer pattern, while the first floor is covered in painted tile-hanging. There is a wooden bressumer under the first-floor jetty. The house has a plain tiled roof with a wooden modillion eaves cornice, a stack on the right, and a hipped dormer that is off-centre to the left. It has two storeys and an attic, with a three-window front that includes casements on the first floor and sashes on the ground floor. The central entrance has a panelled door with glazed upper panels and a flat hood supported by brackets. Inside, there is an 18th-century partition made of late 17th-century Coromandel panels between the hall and a ground floor room. This partition was discovered in 1967, covered with extracts from the Lewes Journal from 1794, 1795, and 1796. The corridor panels depict a lotus pond, while the room panels illustrate a hunting scene.
Local climate
Lamb 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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