Lancing College, Fields House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1985. Educational institution.
Lancing College, Fields House
- WRENN ID
- rough-mantel-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- East Worthing and Shoreham MP: Tom Rutland (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1985
- Type
- Educational institution
- Address
- Lancing College, Fields House, College Drive, Adur
- OS grid reference
- TQ 194 066
- Coordinates
- 50.84677, -0.3048
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lancing College, Fields House is a part of the school built between 1910 and 1912 by Maxwell Ayrton in a Gothic style. The building is constructed of knapped flints with Sussex sandstone dressings and features a tiled roof. It has two storeys and an irregular arrangement of windows.
The east elevation showcases a prominent two-storey splayed bay with a crenellated parapet, featuring three cambered-headed casement windows, with the taller ground floor windows adorned with heraldic stained glass. There is a decorative band between the floors and an end gabled feature with one window flanked by offset buttresses. The first floor contains ten additional windows, alternating between two and three light cambered-headed casements. The ground floor is distinguished by sixteen mullioned and transomed windows with trefoliated heads set within blank arcading, separated by buttresses.
The west elevation also features central and end gabled elements with coping, kneelers, and offset buttresses, along with mullioned windows and a door set in a cambered stone arch in the end gable. The first floor includes ten more mullioned windows, alternating between two and three light designs, and a projecting ground floor with sixteen mullioned and transomed windows with trefoliated heads set in blank arches, again separated by buttresses. The building has a plinth.
Local climate
Lancing College, Fields 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 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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