Seaforth Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Seaforth Cottage

WRENN ID
second-portal-blackthorn
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
Seaforth Cottage, Gomshall Lane, Shere, GU5 9HE
OS grid reference
TQ 074 479
Coordinates
51.22049, -0.46285
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Seaforth Cottage is a cottage that was originally built in the 17th century and later remodeled in the 19th century. It features a timber frame that is clad in whitewashed roughcast and has a plain tiled roof. The cottage is one storey high with an attic, which is accentuated by two large, steep gabled dormers that contain diamond-pane leaded casement windows. These dormers are adorned with wavy edge bargeboards and spike finials.

There is an end stack on the left side, a rear stack to the right of the center, and an end ridge to the right. The ground floor has four leaded casement windows. To the left of the center, there is a panelled door that leads into a gabled, half-glazed leaded porch. This porch also features pierced wavy edge bargeboards and a pendant finial on the gable. The outer doors are half-glazed double doors with turned mullions. At the back, there is a parallel range and a flat-roofed extension on the left side.

Local climate

Seaforth 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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