Sompting Abbotts is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1984. A Victorian School. 1 related planning application.
Sompting Abbotts
- WRENN ID
- fossil-sandstone-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- East Worthing and Shoreham MP: Tom Rutland (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1984
- Type
- School
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Sompting Abbotts, Church Lane, Adur, BN15 0AZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 162 057
- Coordinates
- 50.83953, -0.34988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sompting Abbotts is a boys' school built in 1856, designed by architect P C Hardwick in the Tudor style. The building is L-shaped, with two storeys and an attic, featuring six windows and two dormers in the main block. It is faced with flints, stone dressings, quoins, and some sections of red brick, topped by a very steep slate roof. The casement windows have stone mullions and transoms.
On the south front of the main block, there is a non-central bay made of red brick, which contains a window with three central lights and two flanking lights. To the east of this bay is a gable, and to the west are two sharply steep dormers. At the southwest angle, there is a bartizan with five lights on the first floor. The service wing, which is lower in height, forms an L shape to the northeast and has two windows along with an octagonal turret that is taller than the wing itself.
The entrance front features a large square tower made of red brick that rises five storeys and projects beyond the front. There is a round turret that projects from the second floor upwards, and the steep roof is topped with an ornamental octagonal iron railing. To the west of the tower, there is an elaborate doorway made of red brick and stone, complete with side lights and a castellated parapet.
Local climate
Sompting Abbotts 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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