79, 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. House, shop. 2 related planning applications.
79, High Street
- WRENN ID
- still-screen-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1985
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 79, High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 413 100
- Coordinates
- 50.87226, 0.00805
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 79 High Street is a house that has been converted into a shop, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. The building features a stucco front with a rusticated ground floor. There is a string course above the ground floor and a cill band below the second floor. The roofline includes a moulded cornice and a parapet, with an added fourth floor from the 20th century. The structure has four storeys and a regular two-window front, with glazing bar sash windows. To the left, there is a small 20th-century neo-Regency double shop front, and the doorway is located on the right.
Local climate
79, 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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