17, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
17, High Street
- WRENN ID
- upper-nave-torch
- 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
- 17, High Street, Lewes, BN7 2LN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 417 101
- Coordinates
- 50.87385, 0.01366
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 17 High Street is a house built in 1874. It features a stucco exterior with a wide first-floor band that has a moulded string above and a cornice below, topped with a modillioned cornice at the balustraded parapet, which conceals the roof. The building has two storeys and a basement, with a regular three-window front.
On the first floor, there are large casement windows with transom lights set in raised surrounds, each adorned with pediments on volute brackets; the outer bays have segmental pediments while the inner bays have triangular ones, all with raised panels below. The ground floor has round-arched windows with keystones and bracketed cills, featuring sashes without glazing bars.
The central panelled door is topped with an overlight and is set within a recessed and rusticated surround. Doric columns flank the door, supporting entablature blocks, with Doric pilasters marking the outer edges of the slightly projecting door surround. There are five steps leading up to the door, flanked by balustrades that descend to low square piers. An area to the left includes one glazing bar sash. This building was originally constructed for the Lewes Savings Bank and is now known as the Oddfellows Hall.
Local climate
17, 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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