Gardeners Cottage Including Attached Garden Walls, Sheds and Cart Sheds is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1988. Cottage.
Gardeners Cottage Including Attached Garden Walls, Sheds and Cart Sheds
- WRENN ID
- strange-loggia-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gardeners Cottage Including Attached Garden Walls, Sheds and Cart Sheds, Park Lane, West Bretton
- OS grid reference
- SE 284 132
- Coordinates
- 53.61486, -1.57094
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gardener's Cottage, along with its attached garden walls, sheds, and cart sheds, dates from the early to mid 19th century. The building features ashlar stone and Welsh slate roofs, while the garden walls are made of red brick. This single-storey cottage is centrally located, with the garden walls curving forward to each side. The sheds and cart sheds lean against the rear of the left wall and have a curved shape.
The cottage originally had a symmetrical five-bay front, with the central bay slightly projecting and rusticated. It once had a central door, which has been replaced by a 12-pane sash window with a flat arch. There are 12-pane sash windows on either side, with the far-right window now serving as a doorway. The cottage is topped with a tall balustraded parapet and has a hipped roof, supported by two ashlar chimneys.
At the rear, the sheds create a low range, with window and door openings that are skewed to align with the sloping ground, resulting in non-rectangular shapes. The doors and glazing have been shaped to fit these openings. The structure features a deep plinth, a moulded cornice, and a blocking course. To the left of the sheds is a nine-bay cart shed, which was originally open but now has doors. This cart shed is separated by square stone piers that have bases and caps. The original brick walls once extended continuously across the south side of the garden, but the lower wall has since been demolished.
Local climate
Gardeners Cottage Including Attached Garden Walls, Sheds and Cart Sheds receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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