Chichester District Council Offices is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1959. Council offices.
Chichester District Council Offices
- WRENN ID
- grey-kitchen-amber
- 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
- Council offices
- Address
- Chichester District Council Offices, North Street, Midhurst
- OS grid reference
- SU 886 216
- Coordinates
- 50.98785, -0.73863
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chichester District Council Offices is a large house built in the late 18th century. It is constructed of red brick with all headers, featuring rusticated stone quoins, a stringcourse, and a plinth. The building has a wooden modillion eaves cornice and a slate roof. To the south of the center, there is a large two-storeyed five-sided bay that is hung with red mathematical tiles. On the first floor, there are Venetian windows with stone surrounds and keyblocks at each end of the front, and the glazing bars remain intact. There is a rusticated doorway to the north of the bay, which includes a keystone, cornice, and a semi-circular fanlight. The building has two storeys and an attic, with five windows and three dormers. The south wall is made of uncoursed stone rubble set in galletting.
Local climate
Chichester District Council Offices 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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