Former Lewes Public Library is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1970. Public library. 19 related planning applications.
Former Lewes Public Library
- WRENN ID
- slow-balcony-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1970
- Type
- Public library
- Address
- Former Lewes Public Library, Albion Street, BN7 2ND
- OS grid reference
- TQ 417 102
- Coordinates
- 50.87457, 0.01298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Lewes Public Library, dating to around 1870, is a red brick building with a slate roof. The roof is steeply pitched and features pavilion-like gables at each end, topped with small cast-iron balustrades and weather-vane finials. A tall brick stack, incorporating stone detailing and projecting mouldings, rises from the centre of the ridge.
The front of the building has four windows, each with pointed arch surrounds and hood moulds above the casements, set within a horizontal band along the cill. A central stone porch with a flat-headed parapet, pierced with quatrefoil decoration, provides access. The central pointed archway of the porch has moulded imposts and panelled spandrels, leading to a hollow-chamfered arch over a double panelled door.
Local climate
Former Lewes Public Library 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 — 12 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 19 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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