Keepers Mead is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. House. 5 related planning applications.
Keepers Mead
- WRENN ID
- grey-passage-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Constituency
- Horsham MP: John Milne (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Keepers Mead, Shermanbury Road, West Grinstead, RH13 8EU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 199 198
- Coordinates
- 50.96549, -0.2936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keepers Mead is a house dating from around 1620, which was refronted in the 19th century and extended by two bays in a matching style in the late 20th century. The original part of the house is timber framed, with the ground floor refronted in render, while some framing is visible on the rear elevation. Above, the house features tile hanging with an alternating series of plain and curved tiles. The right side elevation is constructed of sandstone blocks. The roof is newly tiled and includes a red brick chimney stack along with two later brick chimney stacks.
The house is two storeys high with two windows in the original part. The first-floor windows are gabled dormers fitted with 20th-century casements. The ground floor also has 20th-century casement windows, including a four-light bay on the right side. A 20th-century gabled weather porch is present at the entrance. The date of 1620 is noted on the back of the dining room's inglenook fireplace. Inside, the dining room features a 1½ inch Chanford spine beam with lambs tongue stops and floor joists with run-out stops. The rear wall has a box frame with a midrail. The lounge contains a similar spine beam and floor joists, along with a moulded bracket beneath the spine beam. The first floor showcases jowled posts, a midrail, and a series of carpenters' marks. The roof has a queen post structure with through purlins and original rafters, retaining original wattle and daub and early brickwork at the top of the chimney stack.
Local climate
Keepers Mead 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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