103, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1952. House. 8 related planning applications.

103, High Street

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1952
Type
House
Address
103, High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XH
OS grid reference
TQ 412 099
Coordinates
50.87196, 0.00569
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 103 High Street is a house dating from the 16th century, with a front added in the mid-18th century. It has a timber frame with a stuccoed front set on a plinth. The building features rusticated quoins and a coped parapet above a plain tiled roof, which has a red brick chimney behind the ridge to the right and two gabled dormers. The house is two storeys tall with attics and has a regular four-window front, featuring glazing bar sashes in open boxes. The entrance includes a six-panel door with a flat hood supported by brackets and a shallow transom light above. The rear elevation is tile-hung and has a long two-storey wing, likely from the 16th century.

Inside, the rear wing is timber-framed and shows evidence of heavy scantling timbers. The ground-floor fireplace has a bressumer with crude acanthus decoration in the spandrels and a moulded lintel. The staircase, dating from around 1730 to 1740, is small and features a square open-well design with a ramped rail and a column on vase balusters with square knops. The front room on the ground floor has early 17th-century panelling, which has been painted over later. It also features an eared and egg-and-dart decorated fire surround with a marble staff-moulded inset and a Greek-key frieze on the cornice-mantel, which is very similar to the fireplace found in School Hill House.

Local climate

103, High Street 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
  • Related listed building consents — 8 applications
  • 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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