138, 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. 4 related planning applications.
138, High Street
- WRENN ID
- western-sandstone-moth
- 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
- Address
- 138, High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 411 100
- Coordinates
- 50.87228, 0.00492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, later used as a club, dating from the 16th century, with a front of the early 19th century. The exterior is stuccoed, topped with a plain tiled roof and a parapet. There is a parapetted end gable to the left and a very tall ribbed red brick stack on the ridge, to the right of the centre. The house is two storeys high and has an irregular arrangement of windows; three windows on the first floor and two on the ground floor. The right-hand bay has tripartite sash windows on both floors, while the left-hand side has 20th-century iron-framed casements. A 20th-century boarded door is located on the extreme left. The upper room contains some 17th-century oak panelling.
Local climate
138, 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 — 7 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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