5, Gardiners Lane is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. Cottage.
5, Gardiners Lane
- WRENN ID
- tired-eave-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 5, Gardiners Lane, Ashwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 266 396
- Coordinates
- 52.04091, -0.15497
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 Gardiners Lane is a cottage dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It features a timber frame with roughcast exterior and a thatched roof. The building has two storeys and three 19th-century sash windows that are slightly recessed in moulded wood frames. The left first-floor sashes are paired, while the right ones have replacement glazing bars. On the right side of the building, the ground floor has three casement windows, and the interior reveals exposed floor plates and heavy purlins.
Local climate
5, Gardiners Lane sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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