Greyfriars (City Council Offices) is a Grade II listed building in the Chichester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1950. Offices. 6 related planning applications.
Greyfriars (City Council Offices)
- WRENN ID
- rough-railing-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chichester
- Constituency
- Chichester MP: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1950
- Type
- Offices
- Address
- Greyfriars (City Council Offices), 61, North Street, PO19 1NB
- OS grid reference
- SU 861 050
- Coordinates
- 50.83892, -0.7784
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Greyfriars, also known as the City Council Offices, is an 18th-century building located on North Street. It is two storeys high with an attic and consists of two sections, with the northern frontage being slightly lower. The building features five windows, plus two additional ones in the extension to the north. It is constructed from painted brick and has cornices with modillions. The sash windows are set in flat arches with shallow reveals and retain their glazing bars, while the southern part has flat stuccoed architraves. A prominent feature is the large three-light bow window on the first floor, which has a moulded frieze. There are three dormers and a double doorway in the extension that includes an extra-large semi-circular fanlight. The roof is covered with slate. Inside, there is a good staircase with turned balusters and inlaid stair ends. Greyfriars is part of a group that includes Nos 50 to 63 consecutively and The Ship Hotel, along with No 5 Guildhall Street.
Local climate
Greyfriars (City Council Offices) receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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