Oakwood Preparatory School is a Grade II listed building in the Chichester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1958. School. 3 related planning applications.
Oakwood Preparatory School
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-jade-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chichester
- Constituency
- Chichester MP: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1958
- Type
- School
- Address
- Oakwood Preparatory School, Funtington Road, PO18 9AN
- OS grid reference
- SU 827 066
- Coordinates
- 50.85391, -0.82648
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oakwood Preparatory School is a large house built around 1811 for William Dearling, likely designed by architect James Elmes. The main facade, facing west, features two storeys and seven windows. The building is stuccoed, with a rusticated ground floor and a string course above. It has an eaves cornice and a slate roof, with intact glazing bars. The central part of the facade has a slightly curved bay with an iron balcony on the first floor. In the late 19th century, a pavilion was added to the north end, connected to the house by a corridor that features a colonnade of four Doric columns. The entrance front has two storeys and an attic, with four windows, three dormers, and a wide portico supported by twin columns. To the north-west, there is a one-storey wing that includes an Italianate loggia.
Local climate
Oakwood Preparatory School receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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