Barn to West of Picts Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1992. Agricultural. 2 related planning applications.
Barn to West of Picts Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hushed-tin-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Constituency
- Horsham MP: John Milne (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1992
- Type
- Agricultural
- Address
- Barn to West of Picts Cottage, Picts Lane, Cowfold, RH13 8AN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 220 238
- Coordinates
- 51.00095, -0.26209
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A barn dating to the late 16th century stands to the west of Picts Cottages. The barn is timber-framed and originally clad in weatherboarding set upon a sandstone base. It has a hipped tiled roof. The three-bay structure features gunstock-jowled upright posts, a midrail, and curved tension braces. Additional features include angled queen struts, through purlins, and rafters without a ridgepiece.
Local climate
Barn to West of Picts Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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 — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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