Molecomb is a Grade II* listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1958. Dower house.
Molecomb
- WRENN ID
- tilted-rood-bone
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Chichester MP: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1958
- Type
- Dower house
- Address
- Molecomb, Goodwood Park, Westhampnett, Chichester
- OS grid reference
- SU 894 100
- Coordinates
- 50.8832, -0.72918
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Molecomb is the Dower house of Goodwood Park, designed in 1777 by the third Duke of Richmond, although it is also attributed to James Wyatt. The building has two storeys and is faced with flints, topped by a slate roof.
The north entrance front features nine windows, with the three central window bays projecting and having a string course. The end window bays are lower and topped with pediments. The window dressings and quoins are made of red brick, and the glazing bars are intact. A Corinthian porch with a wide round-headed doorway leads to the entrance, which has a round-headed tympanum and double doors with six panels.
On the south garden side, the facade consists of a central section and two wings. The central part has two storeys and five windows, with a white brick eaves cornice. It is flanked by single-storey corridors with four Ionic columns each, which have been filled in and now contain two windows and one doorway on each side. The back elevation of the house remains two storeys high, with two one-storey pavilions on the outer sides that are taller than the corridors and feature pediments above. The glazing bars are also intact on this side.
Local climate
Molecomb receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% 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 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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