23, 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, office. 10 related planning applications.
23, High Street
- WRENN ID
- ancient-kitchen-autumn
- 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, office
- Address
- 23, High Street, Lewes, BN7 2LU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 417 101
- Coordinates
- 50.87368, 0.01298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, later used as an office, dating from the later 18th century. It is stuccoed and has a low-pitched slate roof with a distinctive modillioned eaves cornice. Rusticated quoins mark the corners. The building has three storeys and a basement, with a regular three-window front. The windows are sash windows without glazing bars, set within raised moulded surrounds. A central panelled door is contained within a moulded surround topped with a triangular pediment. Four steps lead up to the door, flying over an area protected by spear-head railings and vase-head standards that curve around the area itself. Two segment-headed casements are set into the area, and an anthemion boot-scraper is located to the right of the door. The interior features a two-flight return staircase with turned balusters, columnar newels, and a flat, ramped handrail. Dado panelling is also present.
Local climate
23, 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 — 7 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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