5, Chapel Hill is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1985. Cottage.

5, Chapel Hill

WRENN ID
other-wattle-ivy
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 October 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
5, Chapel Hill, Lewes
OS grid reference
TQ 422 102
Coordinates
50.87436, 0.01989
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 5 Chapel Hill is a 17th-century cottage located on the east side of Chapel Hill in Lewes. The building features painted brick on the ground floor and plain and scalloped tile-hanging on the first floor. It has a wooden eaves cornice beneath a plain tiled roof, which is topped with a small brick stack on the left and a larger brick stack on the right. The cottage is two storeys tall and has an irregular arrangement of windows, with two on each floor. The first-floor windows are horizontal sliding sashes, while the ground floor has glazing bar sashes. There is a panelled door that is slightly off-centre to the left, topped with a flat hood supported by small brackets.

Local climate

5, Chapel Hill 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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