The Fountain Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1980. Inn. 1 related planning application.
The Fountain Inn
- WRENN ID
- tilted-string-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1980
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Fountain Inn, Ashurst, BN44 3AP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 180 161
- Coordinates
- 50.93262, -0.32208
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fountain Inn is an L-shaped building located in Ashurst. The east wing dates from the 17th century or earlier and is timber-framed, though it is currently faced with cement on the ground floor and features tile-hanging. It has a steeply-pitched hipped tiled roof and two chimney breasts on the south wall. This section has two storeys and three windows. The north wing, built in the early 19th century, is made of painted brick and has a slate roof. It features sash windows with intact glazing bars and also has two storeys with two windows.
Local climate
The Fountain Inn 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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