Motts Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.

Motts Cottage

WRENN ID
deep-cobble-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Horsham
Constituency
Horsham MP: John Milne (LD)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Motts Cottage, Rudgwick, RH12 3BS
OS grid reference
TQ 070 324
Coordinates
51.08116, -0.47295
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Motts Cottage is a 17th century or earlier timber-framed building. It features tile timbering and red brick infilling that is exposed at the back. The front has been re-faced with red brick and grey headers on the ground floor, while the upper part is adorned with fishscale tiles. The building has a coved bressumer and a bellcast between the floors, along with an eaves cornice. The roof is tiled, and there are casement windows with diamond-shaped panes. The cottage has two storeys and five windows.

Local climate

Motts Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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