Heathy Ground Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Crawley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1992. Farmhouse.

Heathy Ground Farmhouse

WRENN ID
patient-hearth-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Crawley
Constituency
Crawley MP: Peter Lamb (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1992
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Heathy Ground Farmhouse, Balcombe Road
OS grid reference
TQ 298 390
Coordinates
51.13615, -0.14608
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Heathy Ground Farmhouse is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the 16th century. It features a four-bay lobby entrance house at the rear and a late 19th-century 'T' wing that faces the road. The 16th-century wing is timber framed and was refaced in the 19th century with red brick on the ground floor, while the first floor is tile hung. The roof is steeply pitched and tiled, with an off-central brick chimneystack. The building has two storeys and three windows, with 19th-century casements and a late 19th-century gabled weather-porch that has wooden bargeboards and piers on a brick base. The late 19th-century 'T' wing is constructed of yellow brick on the ground floor, with the first floor tile hung in alternating plain and fishscale tiles. It has a tiled roof with a panelled brick chimneystack and a projecting gable on the right side, along with two 19th-century casements and a lean-to porch.

Inside, the 16th-century wing features a central ground floor room with an open fireplace that has a late 16th-century wooden bressumer. There is a roll-moulded spine beam, and the floor joists are chamfered with lambs tongue stops. A cupboard staircase from the 18th century is located beside the fireplace and has a narrow, steep wooden staircase along with a ledged plank door that has pintle hinges. The first floor includes jowled posts and framing with curved and diagonal tension braces, as well as a queen post roof with a collar beam and pegged rafters that do not have a ridge piece.

Local climate

Heathy Ground Farmhouse receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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