Russet House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1959. House.
Russet House
- WRENN ID
- lone-cornice-merlin
- 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
- House
- Address
- Russet House, Sheep Lane, Midhurst, Chichester
- OS grid reference
- SU 887 215
- Coordinates
- 50.98631, -0.73749
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Russet House is an 18th-century house located on Sheep Lane in Midhurst. It is constructed of red brick with grey headers in Flemish bond, sitting on a stone plinth. The building features a string course and a coved eaves cornice, topped with a tiled roof. The windows retain their original glazing bars, and the doorway is adorned with a flat hood supported by brackets and has deep panelled reveals. An old Sun insurance sign, numbered 68554, is also present. The house has two storeys and five windows.
Local climate
Russet 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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