Bonnington Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1963. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Bonnington Cottage
- WRENN ID
- buried-storey-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1963
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bonnington Cottage, Goodnestone, CT3 1PN
- OS grid reference
- TR 251 539
- Coordinates
- 51.23985, 1.22376
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bonnington Cottage is a house dating from the mid-16th century and around 1700. It features a timber frame with exposed close studding and plaster infill, set on a base of brick and flint, with the left end wall constructed of red brick. The roof is plain tiled. The cottage consists of three framed bays and is two storeys high, resting on a plinth with a continuous jetty, except for the left end elevation which has a shaped gable. There are stacks to the left and a double stack to the centre right.
On the first floor, there are two four-light wooden casements and one two-light wooden casement to the right. The ground floor has a cross window, a two-light wooden casement, a three-light mullioned and transomed window, and another two-light wooden casement. The doors feature rib and stud designs with four-centred arched surrounds, located at the centre and to the right, with a blocked opening to the left.
To the left of the house, connecting it to Bonnington Farmhouse, is a courtyard enclosed by a 16-foot high red brick wall on a plinth. This wall features a central round-headed gateway between the two houses, about 5 feet high, with two gatepiers. The courtyard measures approximately 50 metres by 50 metres and is located to the rear left, south of Bonnington Cottage. The cottage was originally built as part of the manorial complex of the Boys family at Bonnington.
Local climate
Bonnington 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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