Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Adur local planning authority area, England. Town hall. 12 related planning applications.

Town Hall

WRENN ID
hidden-lime-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Adur
Constituency
East Worthing and Shoreham MP: Tom Rutland (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Town hall
Address
Town Hall, High Street, BN43 5DD
OS grid reference
TQ 214 050
Coordinates
50.83187, -0.27674
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Town Hall, originally built as a Customs House in 1830 by Sidney Smirke, was converted for its current use in 1886. It features incised render with a band and a full entablature beneath a slate hipped roof, which has a stack on the left side. The building is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-bay centre with a one-bay recessed wing to the right. Tall doubled pilasters on single pedestals flank the central bay and support a projecting pediment. The frieze under the pediment has raised lettering that reads 'Town Hall'. The windows are metal casements, with three on the first floor above the doors. The entrance is located in the central bay and consists of doubled panelled doors with a transom light above. It is topped by a moulded entablature hood on volute brackets, which carries a sculptural group representing the royal arms.

Local climate

Town Hall 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
  • Related listed building consents — 12 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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