Temple Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. House.

Temple Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 August 1984
Type
House
Address
Temple Cottage, Canterbury Road, Godmersham
OS grid reference
TR 064 509
Coordinates
51.22005, 0.95499
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Temple Cottage is an 18th-century house located on the west side of Canterbury Road in Godmersham. It is constructed of red brick with a plain tiled roof and features two storeys on a plinth. The hipped roof is topped with a large central chimney stack. On the first floor, there are three wooden casement windows set in segment-headed openings. The ground floor has two segment-headed casement windows with shutters, positioned on either side of a central door. This door has six fielded panels and is adorned with a semi-circular fan light above it, all set within a panelled semi-circular doorway that is topped with an open triangular pediment supported by consoles. The 18th-century doorway was brought to this location in 1951.

Local climate

Temple Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% 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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