Fountains Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Chichester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1955. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Fountains Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- pale-lintel-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chichester
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Fountains Farmhouse, Plaistow Road, Kirdford, RH14 0JX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 026 279
- Coordinates
- 51.04174, -0.53689
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fountains Farmhouse is a T-shaped farmhouse that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame and features herring-bone red brick infilling, while the ground floor has been rebuilt in painted brick. The south end of the front has a gable, and beyond this gable is a projecting cros-stepped chimney breast, also in painted brick. The farmhouse has a tiled roof and casement windows, and it stands two storeys high with four windows. The first floor at the back is tile-hung.
Local climate
Fountains Farmhouse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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