John Penfold Ltd is a Grade II listed building in the Crawley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1981. House.

John Penfold Ltd

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Crawley
Constituency
Crawley MP: Peter Lamb (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 July 1981
Type
House
Address
John Penfold Ltd, 29, High Street
OS grid reference
TQ 267 364
Coordinates
51.11373, -0.19027
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

John Penfold Ltd is an early 17th-century central chimney house that was altered in the 19th century. It stands two storeys tall, with the front stuccoed in the 19th century and featuring two small gables. The upper storey has two windows, with the southern window linked by panel treatment to the ground floor window of the office. There is a modern shop front on the left side. The building has a tiled roof, but the chimney and the internal ground floor walls have been removed. Inside, there are chamfered beams and original floorboards. The chimney bay, which runs from the front to the back of the house, originally contained an entrance lobby, the chimney, a passage, and a semi-circular staircase. The staircase remains in its original position between the first and attic floors, and some wattle and daub partitioning is still present. At the back of the shop, there is a two-storey mid-Victorian addition and a complete 19th-century corn chandlers yard that includes a large barn, cart shed, stables, tack room, and a store for chaff cutting.

Local climate

John Penfold Ltd receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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