Wharf House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Wharf House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-joist-sunrise
- 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
- Wharf House, South Street, Lewes
- OS grid reference
- TQ 424 099
- Coordinates
- 50.87164, 0.02316
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wharf House is a house built around 1760. It features channelled stucco with a moulded wooden corniced parapet and a slate mansard roof, which has end brick stacks and two segment-headed dormers. The building is two storeys tall with attics and has a regular three-window front, with the central window being narrower. All windows are sashes except for a metal casement on the ground floor to the left. The central entrance has a half-glazed door and a blind wreathed and radiating fanlight. It is framed by a wooden pilastered surround topped with an open dentilled triangular pediment.
Local climate
Wharf House 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 — 4 transactions since 2000
- 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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