Grade I listed buildings in West Sussex

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The county of West Sussex in South East England has 176 Grade I listed buildings. Such buildings are described by English Heritage, the authority responsible for their designation, as "of exceptional interest [and] sometimes considered to be internationally important". Grade I is the highest of the three grades of listed status in England: about 2.5% (or 9,300) of the country's 374,000 listed buildings have this designation.

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West Sussex and its buildings

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Districts of West Sussex

West Sussex, a non-metropolitan county, is divided for administrative purposes into seven local government districts, as marked on the map:

  1. Worthing
  2. Arun
  3. Chichester
  4. Horsham
  5. Crawley
  6. Mid Sussex
  7. Adur

Listed buildings in England

In England, a building or structure is defined as "listed" when it is placed on a statutory register of buildings of "special architectural or historic interest" by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, a Government department, in accordance with the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (a successor to the 1947 act). [1] English Heritage, a non-departmental public body, acts as an agency of this department to administer the process and advise the department on relevant issues. [2] There are three grades of listing status. Grade I, the highest, is defined as being of "exceptional interest"; Grade II* is used for "particularly important buildings of more than special interest"; and Grade II, the lowest, is used for buildings of "special interest". [3] As of July 2009, about 374,000 buildings in England were listed. Around 92% of these had the lowest designation, Grade II; 5.5% were listed at Grade II*; and about 2.5% had the highest grade. [3]

Listed status gives buildings a degree of protection from unapproved alteration, demolition or other changes. [3] Local authorities must consult English Heritage when an application for alteration of a Grade I-listed building is made. [4]

Adur

Arun

Chichester

Crawley

Horsham

Mid Sussex

Worthing

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The date given is the date used by Historic England as significant for the initial building or that of an important part in the structure's description.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Sometimes known as OSGB36, the grid reference is based on the British national grid reference system used by the Ordnance Survey.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The "List Entry Number" is a unique number assigned to each listed building and scheduled monument by Historic England.

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References

Notes

  1. "Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (c. 9)". The UK Statute Law Database. Ministry of Justice. 24 May 1990. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
  2. "History of English Heritage". English Heritage. 2010. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
  3. 1 2 3 "Listed Buildings". English Heritage. 2010. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
  4. "Planning Advice". English Heritage. 2008. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Bristow, Paul (27 July 1984). "List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of Adur" (PDF). Department of the Environment . Retrieved 18 February 2010.

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