3,4,5, Southover 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. Cottage row. 3 related planning applications.

3,4,5, Southover High Street

WRENN ID
white-corbel-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1970
Type
Cottage row
Address
3,4,5, Southover High Street, Lewes, BN7 1HS
OS grid reference
TQ 413 097
Coordinates
50.86983, 0.00735
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 3, 4 and 5 form an 18th-century cottage row situated on Southover High Street in Lewes. The ground floor is half-timbered with grey headers and red brick dressings, while the first floor is tilehung. The roof is tiled, hipped to the left, with ridge stacks positioned on the hip to the left and to the right of the centre. The building is two storeys high and has an irregular fenestration pattern with four windows on the first floor and five on the ground floor. Most of the windows are glazing bar sashes, except for the casement window second from the right on the first floor. A 19th-century shopfront is located on the ground floor, nearly at the left end. Boarded doors are present to the right, in the centre, and to the left end. The first floor is jettied out over the left-end door.

Local climate

3,4,5, Southover 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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