Corner House How Man the Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1980. Cottage block.

Corner House How Man the Old Cottage

WRENN ID
unlit-pier-burdock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 May 1980
Type
Cottage block
Address
Corner House How Man the Old Cottage, the Street, Washington, Horsham, RH20 4AS
OS grid reference
TQ 120 127
Coordinates
50.90364, -0.40728
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Corner House and How-man, known as The Old Cottage, is a block of three cottages that share a single roof span. The Old Cottage is a medieval former open hall house believed to date from around 1300, while the other two cottages are likely from the 17th century or earlier. The building is two storeys high and features five windows. It is faced with stone rubble that has been patched with cement, and the east end of Corner House has red brick quoins. How-man has recently been refaced in brown brick. The cottages have a steeply pitched hipped tiled roof and casement windows. The Old Cottage also has a kingpost roof.

Local climate

Corner House How Man the Old Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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