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
- lost-render-martin
- 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
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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