Pratts Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1993. House.

Pratts Farm

WRENN ID
mired-flagstone-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Horsham
Constituency
Horsham MP: John Milne (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1993
Type
House
Address
Pratts Farm, Billingshurst
OS grid reference
TQ 118 258
Coordinates
51.02077, -0.40637
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pratts Farm is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the late 16th century. It features a two-bay end chimneystack design with an 18th-century outshut that was extended by two bays at the front around 1927, along with a T-wing at the rear from the 19th century. The building is timber-framed but was refaced in brick during the 18th century and is now painted. It has an old tiled roof with the original end brick chimney relocated to the center and an external brick stack on the northwest side. Only the northernmost two bays are of special interest.

The house is two storeys with attics and has two windows in the original section and two more in the extension. There are 20th-century gabled dormers with casement windows, and early 20th-century casements on the lower floors, although the ground floor windows feature 18th-century cambered brick head linings. The entrance has a cambered doorcase with a 19th-century door, which is obscured by a 20th-century porch. The 18th-century outshut and the 20th-century painted brick T-wing complete the exterior.

Inside, the building has a box frame with a queen post roof, side purlins, jowled posts, and curved tension braces. The dining room retains an original bressumer above an open fireplace, although the original fireplace itself has been filled in. There is an 18th-century partition wall leading to an 18th-century winder stair. The first floor features old floorboards in a cupboard, a 17th-century two-plank door, and a 17th-century panelled door with cocks head hinges.

Local climate

Pratts Farm 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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