120 and 121, 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. 2 related planning applications.

120 and 121, High Street

WRENN ID
quiet-balcony-jackdaw
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
120 and 121, High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XJ
OS grid reference
TQ 410 099
Coordinates
50.87212, 0.00284
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

120 and 121 High Street is a house that was later used as St Michael's Rectory and is now divided into separate properties. It dates from the early 18th century, with later 18th-century cladding and a 19th-century extension on the right. The building features glazed mathematical tiles on a grey brick plinth, with a grey brick extension to the right. It has rusticated stuccoed quoins and a coved wooden cornice beneath a plain tiled half-hipped roof, which has two large stacks behind the ridge and three pediment-gabled dormers. The structure is two storeys tall with attics and includes a single-storey extension to the right. The front has a regular arrangement of five windows, with a single bay for the right-hand extension. The entrance is centrally located on the main block and features a panelled door with a transom light and a Doric pilaster surround topped by a triangular pediment. To the extreme right, there is a stone-dressed three-light window with a cornice-hood on brackets and a central triangular pediment at floor level, along with a panelled door in a Doric pilaster surround with a triangular pediment below and to the left.

Local climate

120 and 121, 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2009
  • 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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