Bleak House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.

Bleak House

WRENN ID
leaning-wall-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Bleak House, Top Road, Slindon, Arun, BN18 0RP
OS grid reference
SU 963 084
Coordinates
50.86723, -0.63172
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bleak House is a building dated 1719, located on the south side of Top Road in Slindon. It is two storeys high and features two windows, although the east half of the north front is blank. The exterior is constructed of painted brick and has a coved eaves cornice. The glazing bars are intact. The doorway is topped with a flat hood supported by brackets and includes a door made of six fielded panels. Additionally, there is a stone displaying the date 1709 and the initials N. J. M.

Local climate

Bleak House 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 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 1 transaction since 2021
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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