Gardeners Cottage Near West Entrance to Castle Kitchen Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1977. Cottage.
Gardeners Cottage Near West Entrance to Castle Kitchen Garden
- WRENN ID
- muffled-portal-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gardeners Cottage Near West Entrance to Castle Kitchen Garden, Castle Gardens, Alnwick
- OS grid reference
- NU 189 133
- Coordinates
- 55.41356, -1.70224
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gardener's Cottage, located near the west entrance to the Castle Kitchen Garden, dates from before 1827. The building is two storeys high with three windows on the north front and features a single-storey, two-window extension to the west. It is constructed of ashlar stone and has a slate roof. The cottage has glazing bar sash windows, with single-hung windows on the first floor and tripartite windows on either side of the main section. The central entrance consists of a half-glazed door set in a round-headed recess, accompanied by a trellis porch. The later single-storey extension includes one blind window and one later glazed sash window, along with two ogee-headed doorways, one of which is also blind. The east side has two gables, with brick construction and stone architraves around the windows, and a three-light bay window on the ground floor to the right.
Local climate
Gardeners Cottage Near West Entrance to Castle Kitchen Garden receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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