Gardener's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rushcliffe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1987. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Gardener's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- under-hammer-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rushcliffe
- Constituency
- Rushcliffe MP: James Naish (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gardener's Cottage, Melton Road, Rempstone, LE12 6RG
- OS grid reference
- SK 566 243
- Coordinates
- 52.81357, -1.16067
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gardener’s Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage with a mid-19th century extension, situated on the south side of Melton Road, Rempstone. The building is constructed of painted brick, with a slate roof featuring overhanging eaves and two red brick ridge stacks. It is two storeys high, with a three-bay facade. The side walls are canted, and the right side is a mid-19th century extension. The central doorway has a part-glazed door and a glazing bar overlight. Single glazing bar sash windows flank the doorway, and three smaller sashes are positioned above. The first floor of the right canted side has a single sash window, while the first floor of the left side has a single recessed panel. All openings and the panel are finished with flush wedge brick lintels.
Local climate
Gardener's Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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