Kitchen Garden Bounding Wall and Gardener's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. Garden wall and cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Kitchen Garden Bounding Wall and Gardener's Cottage
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Trafford
- Constituency
- Altrincham and Sale West MP: Mr Connor Rand (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1985
- Type
- Garden wall and cottage
- Address
- Kitchen Garden Bounding Wall and Gardener's Cottage, Woodhouse Lane, Dunham Massey, WA14 4SH
- OS grid reference
- SJ 737 876
- Coordinates
- 53.38486, -2.39655
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kitchen Garden bounding wall and Gardener's Cottage are notable structures located on the north side of Woodhouse Lane in Dunham Massey. The wall may date back to the early 17th century, while the cottage is believed to have been built around 1702. Both features are depicted in a painting by J. Harris from 1751.
The wall is constructed with English garden wall bond brickwork, featuring stone dressings and copings, topped with a stone slate roof. It has a roughly square layout with gateways at the center of each side, and the Gardener's Cottage is integrated into the north-west side. The wall includes buttresses at regular intervals, a roll-moulded weathered stone coping, heating flues on the north-west side, and an advanced south-west gateway with a segmental-headed recessed arch and raised coping, dating to around 1750.
The Gardener's Cottage consists of three bays in width and one bay in depth, with two storeys and a mono-pitched roof. The elevations are symmetrical, featuring a central door with a plain stone surround, a two-light chamfered mullion window on either side, and three small casement windows above. The gables are topped with coped kneelers, and the ridge has a stone cornice coping. On the garden side, there is a central segmental-headed cart entry, which now serves as a door, adorned with keystones, and a total of five two-light stone chamfered mullion windows.
Local climate
Kitchen Garden Bounding Wall and Gardener's Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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