56, Southover 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. House. 1 related planning application.
56, Southover High Street
- WRENN ID
- distant-lintel-yarrow
- 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
- 56, Southover High Street, Lewes, BN7 1JA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 411 096
- Coordinates
- 50.86908, 0.00478
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 56 Southover High Street is a house dating from the mid-18th century, which was refronted in the early 19th century. The building is finished in stucco, featuring a horizontally-rusticated ground floor with a string course above and a moulded cornice at the eaves, leading to a Horsham slab roof that has two large stacks positioned behind the ridge. The house has two storeys and attics, with three pronounced segment-headed dormers. On the first floor, there are plastered pilasters adorned with honeysuckle and palmette capitals. The front has three windows, with the outer windows set in two-storey canted bays. The windows are glazing bar sashes, and there is a single sash window above the entrance. The central doorway has a panelled door topped by a fanlight with intersected glazing bars. A projecting porch features an impost band above the arched doorway and a coped parapet, with raised panels on the sides and front, as well as a boot-scraper.
Local climate
56, Southover 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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