Nutshell House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
Nutshell House
- WRENN ID
- outer-dormer-sedge
- 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
- Nutshell House, Lavant, Chichester, PO18 0BH
- OS grid reference
- SU 856 085
- Coordinates
- 50.87003, -0.78443
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nutshell House is an 18th-century house situated end-on to the road. It has two storeys and features three windows. The exterior is stuccoed with long and short quoins, and it has a hipped tiled roof. The house has two bays on both floors, with the western bay displaying ornamental plasterwork between the windows. The glazing bars are intact, and there is a doorway between the bays that is topped with a flat hood. The south wall is faced with flints.
Local climate
Nutshell House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% 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 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% 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 1997
- 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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