Alma Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1984. Cottage.
Alma Cottage
- WRENN ID
- half-flint-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Constituency
- Horsham MP: John Milne (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Alma Cottage, Dial Post, West Grinstead
- OS grid reference
- TQ 154 194
- Coordinates
- 50.96288, -0.35698
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alma Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that has been clad in the 19th century. It is constructed of brick, rendered and channelled to imitate stone, and features a plain tiled roof. The cottage has a tall brick chimney stack on the right side and two gabled, bargeboarded semi-dormers. It is one storey with an attic and has a two-window front with sash windows. The central door is sheltered by a gabled wooden porch, and there is a deep catslide roof at the rear.
Inside, the cottage has a substantial timber frame, with chamfered beams that have lambs-tongue stops in both ground floor rooms. Curved brackets can be seen on the first floor. The roof structure consists of rafters without a ridge piece, but includes some collars and curved braces. There is a fireplace on the ground floor with a chamfered bressumer.
Local climate
Alma Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% 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 68% 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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