The Square House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1955. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
The Square House
- WRENN ID
- patient-wattle-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1955
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Square House, 1 and 2, Village Street, Northchapel, Chichester, GU28 9HS
- OS grid reference
- SU 952 294
- Coordinates
- 51.05676, -0.64284
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Square House is a cottage building from the 18th century that has been divided into two separate homes. It stands two storeys tall with an attic and features two windows along with one window space. The building has two hipped dormers and is constructed of red brick. It includes a stringcourse, a modillion eaves cornice, and rusticated brick quoins. The roof is hipped and tiled. The windows are casement style, and there are two doorways that share a flat hood supported by brackets.
Local climate
The Square House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 4 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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