83/83a, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1985. Shop. 3 related planning applications.

83/83a, High Street

WRENN ID
vacant-sandstone-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 October 1985
Type
Shop
Address
83/83a, High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XN
OS grid reference
TQ 413 099
Coordinates
50.87208, 0.00766
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 83 and 83A on High Street is a house that has been converted into a shop, dating from the early 19th century. The shopfront below features mathematically-tiled over a plastered frame. There is a deep moulded cornice at the parapet that conceals the roof. The building has three storeys and a regular three-window front, with sashes set in moulded window surrounds. The ground floor has a 20th-century double shopfront with a central entrance, located in the left shop front, and a passageway leading to the shop and first-floor entrance in the right-hand shop front.

Local climate

83/83a, 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
  • 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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