Lavant House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1958. House. 5 related planning applications.

Lavant House

WRENN ID
scarred-steeple-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Chichester MP: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1958
Type
House
Address
Lavant House, West Lavant, Chichester, PO18 9AB
OS grid reference
SU 851 082
Coordinates
50.8679, -0.79191
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lavant House is a large house built in the late 18th century. It features a central section flanked by two wings, with an additional wing added to the west in the 19th century. The house has two storeys and an attic. The central portion has five windows, four dormers, and a cemented front with a parapet. Each wing has one window and is constructed of red brick. The building has a modillion eaves cornice and a hipped tiled roof, with the glazing bars remaining intact. The east front displays four windows and a pediment above.

Local climate

Lavant House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% 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 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
  • Related listed building consents — 5 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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