The Cat House is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1955. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Cat House
- WRENN ID
- woven-cellar-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cat House, Church Terrace, Henfield, BN5 9PB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 212 162
- Coordinates
- 50.93254, -0.27525
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cat House is a building that likely dates back to the 16th century. It has a timber-framed structure that has been refaced with brick on the ground floor, which is now painted. Above the ground floor, the building features weather-boarding that is painted to imitate timbering, with a decorative figure of a cat holding a bird under the eaves. The roof is hipped and thatched. The building has two storeys and includes three horizontally-sliding sash windows.
Local climate
The Cat House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- 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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