Chestham Park is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1980. Country house. 1 related planning application.
Chestham Park
- WRENN ID
- unlit-roof-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1980
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Chestham Park, Wheatsheaf Road, Henfield, BN5 9AP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 217 179
- Coordinates
- 50.94786, -0.26839
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestham Park is an L-shaped building constructed between 1816 and 1830 by John Wood, possibly designed by Amon Henry Wilds of Brighton. It is two storeys high and features five windows. The exterior is stuccoed, with the ground floor rusticated. The building has a wide eaves bracket cornice and a slate roof. On the ground floor, there are French windows with Venetian shutters, while the upper storey has sash windows with intact glazing bars. The entrance porch is supported by four fluted Doric columns and features a modillion cornice. At the west end, there is a ground floor addition that includes a later iron and glass veranda, which also has five fluted Doric columns, a frieze, a modillion cornice, and a glass roof. Additionally, there is a service L-wing at the back of the building with five windows.
Local climate
Chestham Park receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 1 application
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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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