The Whipping Post and Stocks is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1955. Whipping post, stocks.
The Whipping Post and Stocks
- WRENN ID
- pale-railing-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1955
- Type
- Whipping post, stocks
- Address
- The Whipping Post and Stocks, Church Street, West Chiltington
- OS grid reference
- TQ 090 183
- Coordinates
- 50.95439, -0.44906
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Whipping Post and Stocks is located just outside the north-east corner of the churchyard in West Chiltington, within a small enclosure surrounded by iron railings.
Local climate
The Whipping Post and Stocks receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 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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