Gardeners Cottage is a Grade II* listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1986. A Georgian Cottage.
Gardeners Cottage
- WRENN ID
- proud-basalt-magpie
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Gardeners Cottage, Edenham
- OS grid reference
- TF 047 224
- Coordinates
- 52.78969, -0.44849
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gardeners Cottage is a building dating from around 1723, possibly designed by Sir John Vanbrugh. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a decorative tiled facetted roof topped with a wooden finial shaped like a pineapple. The cottage has a single ridge yellow brick chimney stack with an ashlar base and a moulded top.
The structure has a rectangular plan with a facetted end front and is a single storey with attics. The front has three bays, a plinth, rusticated quoins, a plain frieze with raised panels, and a moulded cornice. The central entrance is a semi-circular panelled door with a vermiculated surface, flanked by fixed glazing bar lights. All openings are semi-circular headed with stepped reveals and keyblocks.
In the roof, there is a semi-circular headed dormer with scrolled sides, ball finials, and a leaded roof. The sides of the cottage are made of squared limestone rubble and feature pairs of three-light glazing bar windows. Additionally, there are two pedimented dormers with glazing bar lights and rendered cheeks. This cottage is located in Grimsthorpe Park and is part of the building work commissioned by the First Duke of Ancaster.
Local climate
Gardeners 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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