Garden Cottage and Attached Garden Walls at Wrotham Park Home Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1990. Cottage.
Garden Cottage and Attached Garden Walls at Wrotham Park Home Farm
- WRENN ID
- plain-keystone-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1990
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- TQ 247 986
- Coordinates
- 51.67256, -0.1972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden Cottage and attached garden walls at Wrotham Park Home Farm are an estate cottage built in 1856 for Lord Enfield. The cottage is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and features a Welsh slate roof. It is 1½ storeys high with three bays and a rear outshut. The walls on the east side enclose a rectangular garden. The cottage has a chamfered plinth and eaves, with openings that have chamfered surrounds, gauged brick arches, and dripmoulds. The windows are small-paned and fitted with wooden mullions. The raised verges have brick kneelers and brick coping. The tall stacks have clustered flues and cogged cornices.
On the entrance elevation, the left bay projects and is gabled, featuring a three-light window on the ground floor and a two-light window above. To the right, at an angle, is a gabled porch with a timber superstructure on a brick plinth, decorative bargeboards on the arch-braced gable, and a half-glazed double door leading to an internal half-glazed door. There is a two-light window to the right of the porch. The stacks are located on the left side, with the main ridge on the left and a stack at the rear right. The right return has a canted bay window with windows arranged in a pattern of one, two, and one light, with a two-light window above and a datestone in the gable. The garden walls vary in height and feature rounded brick coping, with a gateway aligned with the porch and a two-centred-arched doorway with a board door at the south-east corner.
Local climate
Garden Cottage and Attached Garden Walls at Wrotham Park Home Farm sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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