Southdown Cottage is a Grade II* listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1980. House.
Southdown Cottage
- WRENN ID
- patient-casement-hawk
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Southdown Cottage, Easole Street, Nonington
- OS grid reference
- TR 260 520
- Coordinates
- 51.22297, 1.23654
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Southdown Cottage is a house dating from the 13th century. It features a timber frame with large panels and plaster infill, topped with a thatched roof. The building has a hall house plan and consists of one storey and an attic, set on a plinth made of flint. The roof is hipped, with a central stack and a raking dormer on the right end. On the ground floor, there are four wooden casement windows and a central 4-light mullioned window, along with a boarded door. To the right, there is a weatherboarded outshot. The left end bay appears to be a later addition, but it is fully framed at the rear, suggesting some earlier structural features. Inside, there is evidence of an early hall house, including a 12-foot square hall and a trussed rafter roof.
Local climate
Southdown Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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