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.
West Sussex, a non-metropolitan county, is divided for administrative purposes into seven local government districts, as marked on the map:
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]
Name | Location | Type | Completed [note 1] | Date designated |
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Ifield Friends Meeting House | Ifield | Friends Meeting House | 1676 | 21 June 1948 |
TQ2524337911 51°07′36″N 0°12′42″W / 51.126796°N 0.211626°W |
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St Margaret's Church | Ifield | Parish church | 13th century | 23 February 1983 |
TQ2470337576 51°07′26″N 0°13′10″W / 51.123903°N 0.219454°W |
1187108 | ||
St Nicholas' Church | Worth | Parish church | Saxon | 28 October 1957 |
TQ3019436196 51°06′37″N 0°08′30″W / 51.11028°N 0.141533°W |
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Name | Location | Type | Completed [note 1] | Date designated |
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Castle Goring | Worthing | Country house | 1798 | 11 October 1949 |
TQ1026805644 50°50′23″N 0°26′07″W / 50.839828°N 0.435311°W |
1025839 | ||
St Mary's Church | Broadwater | Parish church | Transitional-Norman | 11 October 1949 |
TQ1466204395 50°49′40″N 0°22′24″W / 50.827747°N 0.373323°W |
1025810 | ||
The Old Palace | West Tarring | House | 13th century | 11 October 1949 |
TQ1327204010 50°49′28″N 0°23′35″W / 50.82456°N 0.39317°W |
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