Highams is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Highams
- WRENN ID
- roaming-render-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Constituency
- Horsham MP: John Milne (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Highams, Cowix Road, Rusper, RH12 4PY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 202 379
- Coordinates
- 51.12783, -0.28259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highams, formerly known as Highams Farmhouse, is a building from the 17th century or earlier. It has two storeys and an attic with a gable, featuring four windows. The ground floor is faced with red brick and grey headers, while the upper part is covered in fishscale tiles. The east wing is weather-boarded, and the roof is made of Horsham slabs. The building has casement windows and a 19th-century gabled brick porch.
Local climate
Highams receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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