196, 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, shop.
196, High Street
- WRENN ID
- bitter-storey-plum
- 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, shop
- Address
- 196, High Street, Lewes
- OS grid reference
- TQ 416 101
- Coordinates
- 50.87359, 0.0115
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 196 on High Street is a house that has been converted into a shop, dating from the late 18th century. The building features a mathematically-tiled exterior, a cornice, and a tall coped parapet above a mansard roof, which includes a central flat-roofed dormer and a brick stack at one end. It stands three storeys high with an attic and has a one-window front. The first and second floors have margin-light sash windows set within a two-storey splayed bay. The late 19th-century shop front includes a deep fascia board and an inset glazed door. There is an alleyway entrance on the right side that leads to the rear of the property.
Local climate
196, 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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