Dairy 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.
Dairy Cottage and Attached Garden Walls, at Wrotham Park Home Farm
- WRENN ID
- long-cobble-solstice
- 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 247 987
- Coordinates
- 51.67324, -0.19767
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dairy Cottage and the attached garden walls at Wrotham Park Home Farm are an estate cottage built around 1856 for Lord Enfield, originally known as Garden Cottage. The cottage is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and has a Welsh slate roof. It is L-shaped, with one and a half storeys and two bays. The right bay projects and features a gabled roof, with a small-pane three-light window on the ground floor and a similar two-light window above, both set in chamfered surrounds with gauged brick arches and drip moulds.
An open timber-framed porch is located in the internal angle, resting on a brick plinth, with a hipped roof and a door leading into the right-hand wing. The raised verges have brick kneelers and coping. There is a stack on the right side and another at the rear left. The right return of the cottage has a one-light window to the right and a two-light window above that breaks the eaves under a gablet.
A brick wall projects from the right corner of the cottage, enclosing a trapezoidal garden plot. This wall features a gateway aligned with the porch, which has a simple iron gate. The wall has rounded brick coping and varies in height from approximately 1 meter to 2 meters, ramping up on either side of the gateway. At the southeast corner of the garden, a short section of the wall extends eastward and ends in a brick gatepier topped with a domed capstone.
Local climate
Dairy 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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