The Gardeners Cottage in the Walled Garden at Hamels Park is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 July 1976. House.

The Gardeners Cottage in the Walled Garden at Hamels Park

WRENN ID
stark-spire-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 July 1976
Type
House
Address
The Gardeners Cottage in the Walled Garden at Hamels Park, Hamels Lane, Braughing
OS grid reference
TL 374 246
Coordinates
51.90379, -0.0038
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Gardeners Cottage in the walled garden at Hamels Park is a house built around 1795 by Sir John Soane, with drawings dated 25 August 1795 found in the Soane Museum. The cottage is constructed of plastered brick and features a hipped slate roof. It has a rectangular, double pile plan and stands two storeys tall, facing north from the north side of the walled garden. In the 20th century, single-storey symmetrical plastered extensions were added to the east and west sides. A 20th-century Tuscan porch with a triangular pediment is located at the center of the north elevation, which also has three windows. The north and south elevations each feature three 2-light casement windows, which have been renewed.

Local climate

The Gardeners Cottage in the Walled Garden at Hamels Park sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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