Keeper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 2000. Cottage.
Keeper's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-corridor-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Constituency
- Horsham MP: John Milne (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 2000
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Keeper's Cottage, Tittlesfold, Rudgwick
- OS grid reference
- TQ 094 312
- Coordinates
- 51.07053, -0.43907
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keeper's Cottage is a woodman's cottage dating from the early 19th century, with a mid-19th century extension added above a catslide roof. The main section is constructed from dressed sandstone blocks with lime mortar and features red brick dressings. It has a brick porch with a tiled roof and a central brick chimney stack. The extension over the catslide is weatherboarded and also has a tiled roof.
The cottage is one storey with attics and has two windows. The front elevation includes two small triangular dormers with leaded lights, finials, and pendants. Below these, there are leaded light casements with cambered heads and drip moulding. The central projecting gabled brick porch is built in stretcher bond and contains a single casement with drip moulding, with the entrance located on the side.
On the right side elevation, there is a Dutch door in the catslide, while the left side elevation features a blocked doorcase in the corresponding position. The rear elevation has a painted brick base with two casements that have diamond-shaped leaded lights. The weatherboarded storey above the catslide includes two small 20th-century casements, a 19th-century casement with a leaded light in the center, and leaded light casements in the end gables. The interior reportedly has Horsham slab floors and original fittings. The cottage is situated in the center of ancient Sussex deciduous woodland.
Local climate
Keeper's Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% 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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