Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1986. A C17 House. 2 related planning applications.

Garden Cottage

WRENN ID
night-cellar-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Malvern Hills
Constituency
West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 February 1986
Type
House
Address
Garden Cottage, Bayton, DY14 9LY
OS grid reference
SO 695 732
Coordinates
52.35631, -2.44894
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Garden Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the mid-19th century and restoration in the mid-20th century. It features a timber frame with painted brick infill, a rubble plinth, and a roof covered in fishscale tiles. The building has two framed bays aligned east to west and a large central rubble chimney with a rebuilt brick stack on the north side of the ridge. It is a single storey with an attic that includes dormers.

On the north elevation, there are four panels from the sill to the wall-plate, along with large straight lower corner braces. The tie-beam truss is visible at the west gable end. The south front elevation has two 2-light casement windows on the ground floor, one of which has a cambered head, and two gabled dormers with 2-light casements. The main entrance, located to the right of center, features a 20th-century gabled timber porch with brick and glazed infill on the sides and a 19th-century ledged and battened door.

Inside, the roof structure and the wall frame at the west end are intact, and the central chimney has back-to-back fireplaces. The floor in the east bay is likely an insertion. There is a 20th-century additional bay at the east gable end, which includes double glazed doors and a gabled dormer on the south front elevation, as well as a 20th-century single-storey addition at the west gable end.

Local climate

Garden Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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