70,71,72, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1970. House, shop row. 1 related planning application.
70,71,72, High Street
- WRENN ID
- burning-facade-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1970
- Type
- House, shop row
- Address
- 70,71,72, High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 414 100
- Coordinates
- 50.87241, 0.00861
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a group of three buildings, numbers 70, 71, and 72 High Street, Lewes, originally a house and later converted into a row of shops. The core structure dates back to the 15th or 16th century, but it was substantially rebuilt in the 18th or early 19th century. The building is timber-framed and now covered with stucco, featuring even rusticated quoins. It has a moulded cornice parapet and a plain tiled roof.
Number 70 has three storeys and a single window front. A wide segmental bow window with slender sash windows with glazing bars is present on the first and second floors. A shop front from the late 19th or early 20th century is located on the ground floor, featuring a panelled and glazed door to the left and a plain panelled door to the right.
Number 71 has a shallow canted bay window on the first floor, also with a slender sash window with glazing bars. The shop front is from the mid-19th century and has a pair of half-glazed doors, one on either side.
Number 72 features channelled horizontal rustication on the first floor with a moulded string course above. A two-storey canted bay window with sash windows without glazing bars is present. The shop front, dating to around 1900, has a two-thirds glazed door on the right.
Local climate
70,71,72, High 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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