South Boundary Wall to the Mansion House, The Tower House, Orchard House and the Beeches and Including Gate House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Sussex local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1987. Garden boundary wall, gate house. 3 related planning applications.
South Boundary Wall to the Mansion House, The Tower House, Orchard House and the Beeches and Including Gate House
- WRENN ID
- endless-loft-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- Mid Sussex MP: Alison Bennett (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1987
- Type
- Garden boundary wall, gate house
- Address
- South Boundary Wall to the Mansion House, The Tower House, Orchard House and the Beeches and Including Gate House, West Furlong Lane, Hurstpierpoint and Sayers Common
- OS grid reference
- TQ 281 163
- Coordinates
- 50.93247, -0.17731
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The south boundary wall to the Mansion House, The Tower House, Orchard House, and The Beeches, including the gate house, is a garden boundary wall with a small attached gate house. It dates from the 18th century and was partly heightened in the early 19th century. The wall is constructed of knapped coursed flints with red brick details, including exposed brick base courses, brick lacing courses, crenellations, capping, and gatejambs.
This wall forms the southern boundary to the gardens of The Mansion House, No 74 High Street (The Tower House), and The Orchard House and The Beeches in West Furlong Lane, all of which were originally part of the grounds of The Mansion House. The wall consists of two lengths separated by the gateway to The Tower House. The taller, western length is approximately 3.00 meters high, capped in brick with widely spaced brick crenellations, and features a short but higher return at the southwest angle of the grounds built over a brick arched recess. The eastern length of the wall has a heavy weathered brick capping that projects over a brick dentil course.
The small gate house located to the west of the gateway is taller than the wall and has a hipped tiled roof, with a tile-hung south wall that has an opening fitted with a wooden shutter. The wall and gate house are listed for their group value in West Furlong Lane, formerly known as West Foreland Lane.
Local climate
South Boundary Wall to the Mansion House, The Tower House, Orchard House and the Beeches and Including Gate House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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