78, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1985. A C18-19 House. 1 related planning application.

78, High Street

WRENN ID
crooked-pediment-dew
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
78, High Street, Lewes
OS grid reference
TQ 413 100
Coordinates
50.87228, 0.00811
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 78 is a house located on High Street, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. The building features a stucco front with a rusticated ground floor. Above the ground floor, there is a string course and a cill band beneath the second floor. The roof is concealed by a moulded cornice and parapet. The house has three storeys and a regular two-window front, with glazing bar sashes that have half-H aprons below the first-floor windows. To the left, there is a six-panel door.

Local climate

78, 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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