20, Southover 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. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
20, Southover High Street
- WRENN ID
- north-tallow-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 20, Southover High Street, Lewes, BN7 1HT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 409 095
- Coordinates
- 50.86859, 0.00226
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 20 Southover High Street is a house dating from the early to mid 19th century. It has a rendered exterior sitting on a plinth, a low-pitched slate roof, and a tall brick chimney located near the right end of the roof. The building has two storeys with an irregular arrangement of windows: three on the first floor and two on the ground floor, all of which are glazing bar sashes. On the first floor, there is a pair of sashes, with the left-hand one being blind. On the ground floor to the right, there is a tripartite sash window. The central entrance features a boarded door that is accessed by two steps and is topped by a flat hood supported by brackets. This house is included for its group value with other nearby buildings.
Local climate
20, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
- 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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