168, 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 C18 House. 1 related planning application.
168, High Street
- WRENN ID
- secret-finial-clover
- 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
- 168, High Street, Lewes
- OS grid reference
- TQ 413 100
- Coordinates
- 50.8725, 0.00816
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 168 on High Street is a house built in the late 18th century and altered in the mid-19th century. The ground floor is made of red brick, while the upper levels feature plain and fish-scale tile-hanging in bands. There are wooden side battens and some mathematical tiling on the right return front, which faces Castle Gate. The building has a moulded wooden cornice and a coped parapet that conceals the roof, along with one dormer. It has three storeys and an attic, with a two-window front. The second floor has top-opening casements, the first floor features glazing bar sashes, and the ground floor has sashes without glazing bars. The entrance includes a Doric columned porch with an entablature-hood and a six-panelled door. Additionally, there is a three-window front facing Castle Gate.
Local climate
168, 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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