Elmstead House is a Grade II listed building in the Chichester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1973. House. 1 related planning application.
Elmstead House
- WRENN ID
- outer-copper-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chichester
- Constituency
- Chichester MP: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Elmstead House, Elm Lane, West Wittering, PO20 8LW
- OS grid reference
- SZ 782 985
- Coordinates
- 50.78098, -0.89075
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elmstead House is an 18th-century building located in West Wittering on Elms Lane. It is two storeys high and features five windows. The exterior is faced with Roman cement and has a tiled roof. The windows are fitted with Venetian shutters and retain their glazing bars. The entrance includes a doorway adorned with pilasters, a pediment, and a door made of six fielded panels. Notably, Sir Henry Royce, co-founder of Rolls-Royce, lived in this house from 1917 to 1933.
Local climate
Elmstead House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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