Lime Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. Cottage.
Lime Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tall-chamber-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lime Cottage, Upper Street, Shere
- OS grid reference
- TQ 070 479
- Coordinates
- 51.22069, -0.4686
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lime Cottage is a cottage that dates from the late 16th century, with a 19th-century extension at one end. It has a timber frame with colourwashed rendered infill and colourwashed brick extensions, which are taller on the left side. The roofs are plain tiled. The building is two storeys high on the left, featuring two framed bays, and one storey with an attic on the right, which has two eaves casement dormers. There is curved bracing on the first floor of the framed section, with one small casement window on the first floor and two ground floor windows in the centre. There are stacks at the rear. On the right side, there are two ground floor casements under cambered heads, with one window on each floor to the left. A gabled brick porch on the left has a half-glazed door.
Local climate
Lime Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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