The Old House is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1955. House.

The Old House

WRENN ID
crumbling-cupola-pine
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 Old House, Church Lane, Ashurst, BN44 3AR
OS grid reference
TQ 176 163
Coordinates
50.93435, -0.32744
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old House, originally the Rectory, is located on Ashurst Church Lane. It features an early 19th-century front that is attached to an older structure. The building is two storeys high and has five windows facing south and three windows facing west. The original exterior was made of black mathematical tiles, with quoins and dressings of red mathematical tiles; however, the first floor has been refaced with red weather-tiles. It has a parapet with a wooden dentilled cornice and a hipped slate roof. The glazing bars are intact only on the first floor. The entrance includes a doorway with engaged Doric columns, a pediment, a semi-circular fanlight, and a door with six fielded panels.

Local climate

The Old 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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