The Gardener's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1987. Cottage.
The Gardener's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lunar-dormer-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Gardener's Cottage, Main Street, Greatford
- OS grid reference
- TF 088 118
- Coordinates
- 52.69364, -0.39041
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gardener's Cottage is a cottage dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features an oak timber frame with close studding, a coursed limestone rubble plinth and underbuilding, and is clad in cyclopean rusticated render. The thatched roof has a single red brick axial stack and gable stacks. The cottage originally had a lobby entry plan and is a single storey plus attics. The front has three bays, with a central three-light casement window flanked by two-light similar windows, all with timber lintels. The rear elevation includes 20th-century windows, a blocked original door, and three narrow two-light dormers with thatched eyebrows. Inside, the cottage retains a chamfered beam with run-out stops, and the fireplace features a deeply moulded 16th-century bressumer over an inglenook. There is also some reset 17th-century panelling under the windows.
Local climate
The Gardener's Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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