Gardener's Cottage About 350 Metres South East of Shadwell Park is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1992. Bothy.

Gardener's Cottage About 350 Metres South East of Shadwell Park

WRENN ID
sharp-hammer-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 April 1992
Type
Bothy
OS grid reference
TL 931 828
Coordinates
52.40951, 0.83817
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gardener's Cottage, located about 350 meters southeast of Shadwell Park, is a gardener's bothy built around 1840, possibly designed by Edward Blore. The building is constructed of plastered clay lump and originally featured a thatched roof, which has since been destroyed by fire. It has gabled ends and gault brick stacks with chamfered shafts and moulded caps and bases, the bases adorned with arms, reflecting a Tudor style.

The cottage has an L-shaped plan with a principal room in each wing and a kitchen in the angle. It stands two storeys tall with asymmetrical elevations, featuring a gabled wing on either the left or right side. The windows are a mix of one, two, and three-light designs, showcasing 4-centred arch lights with metal lattice casements. Notably, on the south gable, there is a canted wooden oriel supported by large brackets, also with lattice casements. The southwest angle includes a 20th-century wooden boarded porch with a corrugated iron sheet roof, while the east side has an outshut with another 20th-century wooden porch in the angle.

Inside, much of the original joinery remains intact on the ground floor, including panelled doors, architraves, and cupboards. In the northwest room, there is a carved wooden chimney piece. However, the roof structure has been destroyed.

Local climate

Gardener's Cottage About 350 Metres South East of Shadwell 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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