Westmeston Place is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. House. 4 related planning applications.
Westmeston Place
- WRENN ID
- half-marble-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Westmeston Place, Lewes, BN6 8RH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 338 139
- Coordinates
- 50.90982, -0.09818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westmeston Place is a timber-framed house dating from the 16th to 17th centuries, significantly restored and largely appearing 19th century externally. The house has an L-shape and features two storeys and five windows. The ground floor is stuccoed, while the upper floor is tile-hung. It has a tiled roof.
The south front has a central chimney breast finished in stucco and tile-hanging, with a gabled flint porch to the east side of it. The north front is characterised by two gabled projections and a smaller gable to the west, beneath which is a two-storey bay window with two tiers of nine lights. There is another gabled projection facing east in the angle of the L. The west front retains original windows with two and three lights.
Inside, the house contains a 16th-century staircase and fireplaces, one of which bears the initials “J M”, likely referring to John Michelbourne. There is also 17th-century panelling.
Local climate
Westmeston Place receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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