St John's Priory is a Grade I listed building in the Arun local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1954. A C13 (chapel survives) House. 6 related planning applications.
St John's Priory
- WRENN ID
- plain-stair-bracken
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Arun
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- St John's Priory, Poling Street, BN18 9PS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 046 056
- Coordinates
- 50.84128, -0.51483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 13th-century chapel, originally part of a preceptory or commandery of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, founded in the 12th century. Following suppression of the preceptory in 1541, the buildings passed to Arundel College, which was itself suppressed in 1546. The surviving structure was later adapted into a farmhouse, known as Fairplace Farmhouse, and altered around 1830. The building is constructed of stone rubble, flints, and red brick, with some timber framing visible at the rear. Four stone buttresses project from the front elevation. It has a Horsham slab roof. Casement windows are set in deep reveals. A pointed stone doorway is topped with an archivolt and dripstone. The building is two storeys high with four windows. The east wall has flanking buttresses and a blocked pointed window. A two-window-bay extension in red brick, dating from about 1830, is situated to the west.
Local climate
St John's Priory receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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