86, 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.

86, High Street

WRENN ID
stark-screen-hawthorn
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
Address
86, High Street, Lewes
OS grid reference
TQ 413 099
Coordinates
50.87206, 0.00733
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 86 is a house located on High Street, dating from the mid-19th century. The ground floor is channelled stucco, while the upper floors are constructed of gault brick with stuccoed rusticated quoins. It features a plinth and moulded cill bands, with the band below the first-floor windows serving as raised panelled bases for the windows. The deep eaves cornice is supported by paired brackets. The slate roof has large stacks on both the right and left sides. The building has three storeys and a regular three-window front, with margin-light sash windows that have entablature hoods above the first-floor windows and architrave surrounds for all windows above the ground floor. The ground floor has hound-headed windows set in recesses, complete with bracketed cills, impost mouldings, and brackets. To the left, there is a round-arched recessed doorway featuring impost mouldings and brackets above, leading to a panelled door with an arch-light above it.

Local climate

86, 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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