Jefferies Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1987. Farmhouse.
Jefferies Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sharp-gable-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Constituency
- Horsham MP: John Milne (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Jefferies Farmhouse, Billingshurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 099 242
- Coordinates
- 51.00699, -0.43434
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Jefferies Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with additions and alterations from the 18th century and early 20th century. The building features a timber frame, squared rubble, brick, weatherboard, and tile hung cladding, topped by a plain tile half hipped and gabled roof, which includes a gabled dormer and two brick stacks. It stands two storeys high with an attic.
The oldest part of the farmhouse is a 17th-century, two-unit, timber-framed cottage with a lobby entry, accompanied by a 17th-century timber-framed rear wing that has brick infill panels, likely added later. In the 18th century, the front range was underbuilt in rubble, with a rubble lean-to added against the entry side, featuring a cat-slide roof. The first floor has later weatherboard cladding at the south end and tile hung cladding at the north end.
An early 20th-century brick block, painted white, has been added at the angle of the main range and wing, projecting to the north side. This block includes the main entrance to the house, which is accessed through a recessed arched porch on the left, next to a 3-light casement window with an upper transom on the right. On the first floor above, there is a 3-light casement to the right and a single light casement above the porch. On the north end of the main range, there is a 4-light casement on the ground floor, a 3-light casement on the first floor, and a 2-light casement in the attic.
The east front features a lean-to with a central door that has a glazed upper panel, flanked by late 20th-century casement windows, with the right-hand window situated under an original timber lintel. On the south side, there is a 4-light casement at the end of the main range and a similar window on the ground floor of the wing, both with glazing bars. Above, there is a large late 20th-century 2-light casement on the first floor of the range, along with a small casement to the left. The wing has a gabled dormer.
Internally, there is a central stack located behind the original lobby entry. The interior has not been inspected but is believed to contain exposed beams and posts.
Local climate
Jefferies Farmhouse 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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