Morby House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1952. House, shop. 2 related planning applications.
Morby House
- WRENN ID
- brooding-niche-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1952
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Morby House, 175, High Street, Lewes, BN7 1YE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 414 100
- Coordinates
- 50.87273, 0.00904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Morby House is a late 16th-century house, later used as a shop. It is located on the north side of High Street in Lewes. The building has 19th-century cladding and is timber-framed with tile hanging. It features a plain tiled roof with a large stack at the rear, and simple moulded bargeboards. The house has two gable ends facing the street, with jetties extending below the first and second floors, supported by painted wooden bressumers. It is three storeys high, with irregular window placement. The second floor has two windows, which are glazing bar sash windows. The first floor has three windows; a splayed bay with a glazing bar sash on the left, a central glazing bar sash, and a tripartite sash on the right. The early 19th-century shopfront has paired glazed doors on either side of a central point, and Doric columns supporting the jetty’s bressumer.
Local climate
Morby 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1997
- 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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