The Old Market House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1959. Market hall.
The Old Market House
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-trefoil-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1959
- Type
- Market hall
- Address
- The Old Market House, South Street, Midhurst, Chichester
- OS grid reference
- SU 886 214
- Coordinates
- 50.98542, -0.73776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Market House is an 18th-century building located on South Street in Midhurst. Originally serving as the Market Hall, it now functions as an annex of the Spread Eagle Hotel. The structure features a restored 16th-century timber frame with modern red brick infilling. The ground floor, which was originally open, is now enclosed. The first floor juts out on the northeast and west sides, supported by moulded bressumers and brackets. The north front has two oversailing gables with shallow projecting bars on brackets and pedimented heads, while the south front is tile-hung. The building has a tiled roof and casement windows. At one time, it extended further south. Access to the first floor is provided by an outside wooden staircase. The building has two storeys and an attic in the gables, with two windows on each front.
Local climate
The Old Market House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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