Main Building to Cottesmore School is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1980. School building. 3 related planning applications.
Main Building to Cottesmore School
- WRENN ID
- quartered-flagstone-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Constituency
- Horsham MP: John Milne (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1980
- Type
- School building
- Address
- Main Building to Cottesmore School, Busham Hill, Colgate, RH11 9AU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 250 335
- Coordinates
- 51.08758, -0.21605
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The main building of Cottesmore School, located in Lower Beeding on Busham Hill, is a large mansion built in the Elizabethan style between 1882 and 1883 for P. Saithard, an ostrich-feather merchant. The school relocated here from Hove around 1955. Designed by architects Eshart George and Harold Peto, the building features a half-H plan and is constructed of vivid red bricks. It stands three storeys tall and has twelve windows, with a Horsham slab roof and tall brick chimney stacks. The windows are casement style, and the wings have shaped gables. The central portion of the building includes a six-storey tower topped with a balustrade and a turret that is corbelled out from the top three storeys at the north-east corner. There is also a porte cochere to the north-east of the tower, which has a balustrade above it.
Local climate
Main Building to Cottesmore School receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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