Goodrich Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. House.
Goodrich Cottage
- WRENN ID
- empty-gateway-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Goodrich Cottage, Mersham
- OS grid reference
- TR 049 391
- Coordinates
- 51.11541, 0.92632
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Goodrich Cottage is a house dated 1737, with an earlier core. It features a timber frame clad in red and blue brick arranged in a chequered pattern on a ragstone base, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building has a four-bay lobby entry plan and stands two storeys high on a plinth, with a hipped roof and stacks positioned to the right and projecting at the end left. There are four wooden casements on the first floor and three on the ground floor. To the right, there is a door made of six raised and fielded panels, which has a flat hood supported by brackets above it, along with a datestone overhead. The interior includes a catslide outshot at the rear.
Local climate
Goodrich Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1995
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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