The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1955. Cottage.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-crypt-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1955
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, 69, High Street, Steyning
- OS grid reference
- TQ 175 113
- Coordinates
- 50.88941, -0.3305
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a 17th-century building located on the south-west side of Steyning High Street. Originally a forge, it features a medieval timber frame with plaster infilling and curved braces on the first floor, resting on a base made of brick, flints, and rubble. The roof is tiled, and there are horizontally-sliding sash windows on the first floor, with modern casements below. The building has two storeys and three windows in total.
Local climate
The Old Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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