7 and 9, West Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1985. Shop. 1 related planning application.
7 and 9, West Street
- WRENN ID
- dim-cobalt-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1985
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 7 and 9, West Street, Lewes, BN7 2NJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 415 102
- Coordinates
- 50.87443, 0.01093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 7 and 9 West Street are co-operative stores, now a shop, built around 1900 in an Arts & Crafts style. The building features red brick with stone dressings and a glazed tile dado on the ground floor, topped by a deep coved fascia blind-box and pentice leading to a plain tiled first floor. It has deep overhanging bracketed eaves above a plain tiled roof. To the left, there is a half-timbered and pebble-dashed crosswing that slightly projects on the first floor, complete with a jettied gable, bargeboards, a pendant, and a flagpole.
The upper part of the building includes a wide wooden transom and mullion window with leaded lights and a small rounded oriel on wooden brackets. A tower on the right features brick buttresses that rise from the first floor, joined at the top by segmental arches. Each buttress has a pyramidal tiled cap and finial. The tower has an asphalted concave hipped roof and a three-sided bay on the first floor between the buttresses, with wood-framed leaded lights. This bay rises through a framed and pebbledashed section to a louvred bellcote and clock, which projects from the central bay of the frame on a carved bracket, topped by a small concave pyramidal roof over the bellcote.
There are two cast-iron brackets supporting eaves boxes on the tower roof. The ground floor features large glazed canted bay shop windows, with glazing bars only in the upper part, positioned to the right and left of the centre. There is an arched entrance leading to a white tiled passage at the left, which provides access to the rear of the building. A deep two-storey brown brick wing extends to the rear.
Local climate
7 and 9, West 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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