Pumping House to North of Farm Buildings at Home Farm is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 1974. Pumping house.

Pumping House to North of Farm Buildings at Home Farm

WRENN ID
broken-rubblework-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 October 1974
Type
Pumping house
Address
Pumping House to North of Farm Buildings at Home Farm, Mill Road, South Stoke, Arun
OS grid reference
TQ 018 077
Coordinates
50.86026, -0.5548
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The pumping house, located to the north of the farm buildings at Home Farm, dates from the mid-19th century. It is constructed from nodular flint of unusual size, featuring galleting and Pulborough stone dressings, with a granite plinth. Although the roof has collapsed, it was originally half-hipped.

The building is a single storey and has a corbelled parapet with clasping buttresses at the corners. The north end features a planked door set in a round arch with a plain chamfer at each end, which is obscured by a porch that has a pitched slate roof and gable coping supported by kneelers. The porch has a semi-circular arch with three roll mouldings on the intrados, supported by three and three-quarter colonnettes with cushion capitals and Romanesque bases.

On the west elevation, there are two 2-light windows with plain round arches, also supported by colonnettes with cushion capitals and Romanesque bases, grouped under a single relieving arch, each with a simple hollow chamfer. The windows have diagonal lead glazing bars. The east elevation features two 2-light oblong windows with plain chamfers and diagonal lead glazing bars. The machinery inside is now derelict.

Historically, the "show" facade is on the west side, as Mill Road did not exist before around 1350, and the road to South Stoke passed to the west of the buildings at Swanbourne. The view by Fredk. Mason suggests that the pumping house and the farmyard were among the earliest structures in the group.

The Home Farmhouse, farm buildings, pumping house, and bridge form a cohesive group, along with the retaining walls to the pools.

Local climate

Pumping House to North of Farm Buildings at Home Farm 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 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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