The Fountain Inn Including the Buildings Adjoining the Inn to the West is a Grade II listed building in the Chichester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1971. Pub/inn. 3 related planning applications.
The Fountain Inn Including the Buildings Adjoining the Inn to the West
- WRENN ID
- grim-slate-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chichester
- Constituency
- Chichester MP: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1971
- Type
- Pub/inn
- Address
- The Fountain Inn Including the Buildings Adjoining the Inn to the West, PO19 1ES
- OS grid reference
- SU 860 045
- Coordinates
- 50.83413, -0.78007
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fountain Inn, along with the buildings adjoining it to the west, is a late 17th to early 18th century structure. It features a steeply pitched red tiled gabled roof with stacks at either end. The building has a cornice adorned with modillions and egg and dart moulding. It is two storeys high with three window bays and a stuccoed front. On the first floor, there are two sash windows with flush boxes and square heads, along with one blocked window; the glazing bars remain intact. A larger sash window is located on the ground floor at the northern end. The southern end has a central doorway and a large modern canted three-sided bay that contains three sash windows and has a parapet.
Immediately to the west of the Inn is a two-storey 18th century block that was formerly used as stables. This block has a much lower frontage and features a hipped tiled roof and a stuccoed front with two sash windows that have flush boxes and square heads. The ground floor ceiling exposes two beams. Further west, there is another 18th century block that is also two storeys high with three windows. It has a red tiled roof and is constructed of red brick, featuring a projecting chimney at the east end of the wall. This block has three sash windows with flush boxes and square heads, but without glazing bars, and it includes relieving arches over the ground floor window and door.
Local climate
The Fountain Inn Including the Buildings Adjoining the Inn to the West 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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- 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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