Bishops Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1980. Almshouse. 2 related planning applications.
Bishops Cottage
- WRENN ID
- western-corbel-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1980
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Bishops Cottage, Church Hill, Pulborough, RH20 1AB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 047 187
- Coordinates
- 50.95876, -0.51
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bishops Cottage is an almshouse built in 1861, later restored and modernised in memory of George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, who passed away in 1958. The building is single-storey with three windows, constructed from stone rubble and featuring a tiled roof. It has casement windows and includes a plaque on the north wall that displays the date and details of the restoration.
Local climate
Bishops Cottage 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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