Fern 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. 1 related planning application.

Fern Cottage

WRENN ID
knotted-chalk-bittern
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
Address
Fern Cottage, School Lane, Washington, Horsham, RH20 4AP
OS grid reference
TQ 119 128
Coordinates
50.9044, -0.40856
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fern Cottage is a 17th century or earlier timber-framed building featuring plaster and painted brick infilling. The east front has its gable refaced in ironstone rubble on the ground floor, with stucco above. It has a Horsham slab roof with a pentice on the western half of the front. The cottage includes casement windows and a brick chimney breast on the west wall. It stands two storeys high and has one window.

Local climate

Fern 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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