Jefferies House is a Grade II listed building in the Worthing local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1976. A C19 House. 2 related planning applications.
Jefferies House
- WRENN ID
- scarred-stone-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Worthing
- Constituency
- Worthing West MP: Dr Beccy Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Jefferies House, Jefferies Lane, BN12 4PS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 112 024
- Coordinates
- 50.81107, -0.42251
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Jefferies House is a detached, two-storey building located on Jefferies Lane in Goring-by-Sea, dating from around 1880. Richard Jefferies, the naturalist and writer, lived here from 1886 until his death in 1887. The house has a characterful but unpretentious design, with the main front facing south towards the garden. It features large flints and brick dressings, three windows including a central camber-headed casement and two side bay windows with five-light sashes. There are decorated tiles between the storeys and in the gables above the bay windows. The central door consists of five moulded, fielded panels. On the north side, the house has a lean-to pitch roof covered with slates and wooden finials, three casement windows, and a central door. The north front and sides are constructed of deep-set flints.
Local climate
Jefferies House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% 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 — 2 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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