Compton is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Compton
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-moulding-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Chichester MP: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Compton, 8 and 9, Chichester, PO18 9HD
- OS grid reference
- SU 774 149
- Coordinates
- 50.92863, -0.89899
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 8 and 9 Compton is a two-storey building dated 1860, located in Compton Village. The exterior is faced with flints and features red brick dressings and quoins. It has a tiled roof and two windows. The ground floor has casement windows with latticed panes and brick dripstones above them, while the first floor features small gables over its windows. A stone tablet on the building displays the date 1860 along with the inscription "The Fear of God maketh the house sure."
Local climate
Compton receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 2007
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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