The White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1980. Cottage.

The White Cottage

WRENN ID
white-lead-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Horsham
Constituency
Horsham MP: John Milne (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 November 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
The White Cottage, 4, High Street, Billingshurst
OS grid reference
TQ 088 263
Coordinates
51.02599, -0.44905
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The White Cottage is an early 19th-century building located on the west side of High Street in Billingshurst. It is two storeys high and features two windows along with one blocked window space. The exterior is stuccoed, and it has an eaves cornice and a slate roof. Most of the glazing bars are intact. On the ground floor, there are two small bays, and the doorway is adorned with pilasters, a pediment-shaped hood, and a semi-circular fanlight.

Local climate

The White Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 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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