The Old Shop Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1979. House.
The Old Shop Cottage
- WRENN ID
- plain-pediment-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Shop Cottage, Lodsworth, Chichester
- OS grid reference
- SU 925 257
- Coordinates
- 51.02368, -0.68195
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Shop Cottage is a house that originated as a timber-framed building from the 17th century or earlier. It features diagonal braces and plaster infilling, along with a steeply-pitched hipped tiled roof. The cottage has casement windows, including one small bay on the ground floor. It is one storey high with an attic, containing three windows and one gabled dormer.
Local climate
The Old Shop Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 2 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
- 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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