Chowles Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1980. Residential. 5 related planning applications.
Chowles Barn
- WRENN ID
- pale-baluster-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Constituency
- Horsham MP: John Milne (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1980
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Chowles Barn, East Street, Rusper, RH12 4RH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 217 374
- Coordinates
- 51.12334, -0.26154
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chowles Barn is a largely modern house that began as a barn, originally located on Venters Lane but now situated on East Street in Rusper. The building dates to the 17th century and is timber-framed with plaster infilling. It has a tiled roof and casement windows. The original barn comprised two storeys and four windows. A modern addition is visible at the east end. A tower, clad in weatherboarding, rises above the roof of the west end.
Local climate
Chowles Barn receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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