Wisteria House, Market Square is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1955. House. 1 related planning application.
Wisteria House, Market Square
- WRENN ID
- brooding-jamb-elder
- 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
- House
- Address
- Wisteria House, Market Square, Petworth, Chichester, GU28 0AJ
- OS grid reference
- SU 976 216
- Coordinates
- 50.98637, -0.60969
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wisteria House, located on the east side of Market Square in Petworth, is a house that has been converted into an office. It dates from the 17th century or earlier and features a timber frame that was refaced with sandstone ashlar in the 18th century. The building is mostly obscured by a large wisteria tree. It stands three storeys tall and has four windows along with one dummy window. There is a stringcourse above the ground floor, a coved cornice above the first floor, and a cornice with a parapet above the second floor. The glazing bars are intact, and the doorway is topped with a flat hood supported by a carved bracket, leading to a door with eight fielded panels.
Local climate
Wisteria House, Market Square receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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