Blackbirds Bookshop Plain N Fancy Women's Clothing Shop is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1973. House, shop.
Blackbirds Bookshop Plain N Fancy Women's Clothing Shop
- WRENN ID
- sacred-screen-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1973
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Blackbirds Bookshop Plain N Fancy Women's Clothing Shop, Lombard Street, Petworth, Chichester, GU28 0AG
- OS grid reference
- SU 976 217
- Coordinates
- 50.98687, -0.60963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blackbirds Bookshop and "Plain-n-Fancy" Women's Clothing Shop is a house that has been converted into a shop. It is a timber-framed building dating from the 17th century or earlier. The ground floor is faced with stone rubble, which is now painted, while the upper floor is tile-hung, with the first floor still oversailing. The building has a gable at the north end of the front and features a tiled roof. There are casement windows and a recessed doorway with a moulded architrave surround and a flat hood above. The shop has modern windows and consists of two storeys with a total of six windows.
Local climate
Blackbirds Bookshop Plain N Fancy Women's Clothing Shop receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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