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

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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.

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