Golden Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. A C17 Cottage.
Golden Hill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stony-clay-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Golden Hill Cottage, Village Street, Stourton Caundle
- OS grid reference
- ST 715 148
- Coordinates
- 50.93221, -2.40639
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Golden Hill Cottage is a 17th-century cottage with an extension added around 1800, located in Stourton Caundle. The building features coursed rubble construction and has both hipped and gabled thatched roofs, with stone and brick stacks at the ends of its ranges. It is designed in an L-shape. The south front has two storeys and a three-window range. On the ground floor to the right, there is a late 19th-century canted bay window with four-pane sashes. The other windows are 19th-century sashes with glazing bars. A central 20th-century stone porch is present, and an old wall plate is visible on the left side.
Local climate
Golden Hill Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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