West House Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1986. House.
West House Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- West House Cottage, the Street, Goodnestone
- OS grid reference
- TR 255 545
- Coordinates
- 51.24518, 1.23006
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West House Cottage is an 18th-century house located on the east side of The Street in Goodnestone. It is constructed of red brick and features a plain tiled roof. The building stands two storeys high with a garret, resting on a plinth. The roof is adorned with a brick dogtooth eaves cornice and has stacks at both the left and right ends. On the ground floor, there are two wooden casements, while the upper floor also has two casements, all with segmental heads. The central entrance door consists of four raised and fielded panels and is topped by a flat hood. At the back, there is a single-storey rear wing.
Local climate
West House 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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