Bell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

Bell Cottage

WRENN ID
other-mantel-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Horsham
Constituency
Horsham MP: John Milne (LD)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Bell Cottage, 78, High Street, Billingshurst, RH14 9QS
OS grid reference
TQ 086 259
Coordinates
51.02257, -0.45275
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bell Cottage is a 16th-century timber-framed cottage located on the west side of High Street in Billingshurst. The cottage features painted brick infilling and has curved braces on the first floor, while the ground floor has been rebuilt in brick. It has a steeply-pitched hipped tiled roof and casement windows. The building stands two storeys tall and has two windows.

Local climate

Bell Cottage 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 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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