Dawes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1959. House.
Dawes Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- blind-wattle-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dawes Farmhouse, Midhurst Road, Fernhurst, Chichester
- OS grid reference
- SU 891 265
- Coordinates
- 51.03115, -0.7294
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dawes Farmhouse is a house that dates back to the 16th century or earlier. It features a timber-framed structure, with the timbering visible at the east end, while the rest of the building has been refaced with stone. The ends of the house were previously jettied. There is a shallow projecting porch that is two storeys high, which includes a four-centre headed doorway. The roof is tiled, and there are casement windows, some of which have stone mullions and drip-stones above them. The house has two storeys and five windows in total. Inside, there is a staircase from the 17th century.
Local climate
Dawes Farmhouse 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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