53, Southdown Road is a Grade II listed building in the Adur local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
53, Southdown Road
- WRENN ID
- tangled-chancel-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Adur
- Constituency
- East Worthing and Shoreham MP: Tom Rutland (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- 53, Southdown Road, BN43 5AL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 214 055
- Coordinates
- 50.83712, -0.27612
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house located at 53 Southdown Road in Shoreham-by-Sea, dating from the mid-18th century and rendered in the mid-19th century. The exterior features incised render with two moulded bands and a modillion cornice at the parapetted roof, which has end stacks. The building is three storeys high with a regular three-bay front. The first and second floors have moulded window surrounds, with bracketed cills and cornice-hoods on the first floor. The central window on the first floor is blocked, and the ground-floor windows do not have surrounds. Throughout the house, there are glazing bar sashes. The central entrance has an arched opening with a pilaster and entablature surround, leading to a panelled door with a fanlight. To the left, there is a two-storey wing featuring a large 20th-century square bay on the ground floor, along with a further extension to the left.
Local climate
53, Southdown Road receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 2 transactions since 2008
- 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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