Hurst Barn is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1991. Barn. 5 related planning applications.
Hurst Barn
- WRENN ID
- empty-mullion-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1991
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Hurst Barn, Chichester Road, Harting, GU31 5RF
- OS grid reference
- SU 762 207
- Coordinates
- 50.98073, -0.91482
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hurst Barn is a late 17th-century threshing barn with 19th-century outbuildings situated on Chichester Road, Harting. The barn is timber-framed and is externally clad in clunch with brick dressings, topped with a hipped roof covered in corrugated iron sheeting. The central cart entrance has a pentice above. The barn’s interior comprises five aisles, supported by jowled upright posts set into concrete padstones. It has an angled Queen strut roof with staggered purlins and pegged rafters, lacking a ridge piece. Many original, roughly hewn timbers remain in the roof. To the east are two low, parallel outbuildings. The northern outbuilding is constructed with weather boarding on stud walls, while the southern one has a combination of stud walls and clunch facing with brick dressings. Both outbuildings are roofed with handmade clay tiles.
Local climate
Hurst Barn receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- 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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