Goodwin's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1982. Cottage.

Goodwin's Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sevenoaks
Constituency
Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 October 1982
Type
Cottage
Address
Goodwin's Cottage, Church Road, Hartley
OS grid reference
TQ 612 661
Coordinates
51.37163, 0.31459
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Goodwin's Cottage is a 17th century or earlier timber-framed building located on Hartley Church Road. This cottage was home to the Goodwin family for five generations, with records of a Goodwin in the parish dating back to the 16th century in the Subsidy Rolls. The cottage has one storey and attics, is weatherboarded, and features a hipped tiled roof. It includes three gabled dormers, three casement windows, and a gabled weather porch.

Local climate

Goodwin's Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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