Ranger's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Estate cottage. 4 related planning applications.

Ranger's Cottage

WRENN ID
dusk-threshold-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 December 1987
Type
Estate cottage
Address
Ranger's Cottage, Hyde Park W2, City of Westminster, W2 2UH
OS grid reference
TQ 274 802
Coordinates
51.507, -0.16566
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ranger's Cottage is an estate cottage built around 1830. It is constructed of stock brick and has a slate roof. The building is a single-storey range with cross wings and is eight windows wide. There is an off-centre entrance on the right, featuring a panelled door and a fanlight set under a segmental gauged arch. The windows are recessed glazing bar sash windows, also with segmental arches. The roofs are hipped and low-pitched, with overhanging eaves, and there are corniced brick chimney stacks. This cottage is included in the listing for its group value only.

Local climate

Ranger's Cottage 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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