30 and 31, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1952. A C19 House. 5 related planning applications.
30 and 31, High Street
- WRENN ID
- solemn-rafter-hawthorn
- 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
- Address
- 30 and 31, High Street, Lewes, BN7 2LU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 416 101
- Coordinates
- 50.87355, 0.01232
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, numbers 30 and 31 High Street, is a house dating to around 1800. It is built with painted mathematical tiles and has a hipped roof covered with plain tiles, featuring a brick stack on the right side. The corner of the building at the junction with Brooman’s Lane is rounded. The house has two storeys and originally four windows on the first floor, with two larger tripartite sash windows on the ground floor, all set within raised flat surrounds. Two windows are visible on the rounded corner, appearing partially from the front facade. A recessed entrance, accessed by six steps, leads to a porch supported by Corinthian columns and topped with a cornice pediment, all inset into the façade. The entrance door is panelled and flanked by matching panels. Inside the entrance is a long, coffered ceiling.
Local climate
30 and 31, 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 — 12 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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