Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Watford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1983. Lodge. 2 related planning applications.
Garden Cottage
- WRENN ID
- moated-vault-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Watford
- Constituency
- Watford MP: Matt Turmaine (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1983
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Garden Cottage, 129, Hempstead Road, WD17 3HF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 099 975
- Coordinates
- 51.66622, -0.41095
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden Cottage is an early 19th century former lodge situated on Hempstead Road. Originally part of Cassiobury House, it is constructed with half-timbering. The two-story building has a hipped valley roof covered in plain tiles, with a central brick chimney located in the valley. The south front features a two-window arrangement, and the first floor has small, projected oriels supported by brackets, featuring leaded casements and tiled roofs. A canted bay window is present on the ground floor to one side, along with a plank door. The road-facing side has a three-light projecting ground floor bay window and a matching oriel above, with leaded casements and tiled roofs. Leaded casements are consistent throughout the building. A brick lean-to addition extends from the north side.
Local climate
Garden Cottage 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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