April Cottage the White House is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1980. House. 2 related planning applications.
April Cottage the White House
- WRENN ID
- frozen-fireplace-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- April Cottage the White House, Brighton Road, Henfield, BN5 9RS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 217 155
- Coordinates
- 50.92688, -0.26857
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
April Cottage, originally known as Clifton House, is an L-shaped building dating from the early 19th century. It stands two storeys high and features four windows on the north side and two on the east side. The exterior is faced with roughcast and topped with a hipped slate roof. The glazing bars are intact, and there is a trellised wooden porch on the north front.
Local climate
April Cottage the White 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 — 7 transactions since 1995
- 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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