Castle Precincts and Right Wing is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1952. House.
Castle Precincts and Right Wing
- WRENN ID
- idle-gateway-acorn
- 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
- Castle Precincts and Right Wing, Lewes
- OS grid reference
- TQ 413 101
- Coordinates
- 50.8736, 0.00772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Precincts and Right Wing is a house built in the early to mid-18th century, partly on foundations from the late 11th or early 12th century. It was raised in the late 18th or early 19th century and altered in the late 19th century. The building features mathematically-tiled walls on a brick plinth on the ground and first floors, with a plain tile-hung second floor. It has a plain tiled hipped roof with tall projecting end stacks. The house is three storeys high, with a regular arrangement of three windows on the second floor and five windows on the first floor, all of which are glazing bar sashes in open boxes. The ground floor is irregular, featuring a sash window to the left, a rendered flat-roofed extension to the right of centre with a canted bay, and a half-glazed door under a timbered and gabled porch to the left of centre. There are also irregular extensions to the right and rear, which back onto Castle Lane. The vaulting under Castle Precincts appears to be the only remaining part of the domestic buildings of Lewes Castle. A section of wall is visible, made of large flints laid in a herringbone pattern, dating from the late 11th or early 12th century.
Local climate
Castle Precincts and Right Wing 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings