The Wattle House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1994. Storage house. 2 related planning applications.
The Wattle House
- WRENN ID
- secret-forge-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Worthing West MP: Dr Beccy Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1994
- Type
- Storage house
- Address
- The Wattle House, Nepcote Green, Findon, Arun
- OS grid reference
- TQ 126 084
- Coordinates
- 50.86433, -0.40033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wattle House is a wattle storage building constructed between 1792 and 1803, likely by George Holford, who received permission from the lord of Findon Manor in 1790 to hold an annual sheep fair at Nepcote Green. The structure is made of flint with red brick dressings and features a slate roof with four brick stacks. It stands two to three storeys high and has three windows with cambered openings, which were boarded at the time of the survey. The ground floor has horseshoe-arched entrances with double doors. This building is a unique survival in a national context and is one of very few structures that highlight the significance of sheep to the economy of the southern downlands. Typically, hurdles for fairs were stored outdoors, as seen in places like Priddy in Somerset, where they have become a permanent feature in the centre of the green.
Local climate
The Wattle 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
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- 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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