Gardeners Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1994. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Gardeners Cottage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-keystone-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1994
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gardeners Cottage, Bradfield, RG8 8QA
- OS grid reference
- SU 607 744
- Coordinates
- 51.46574, -1.12715
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gardener's Cottage is an estate lodge built as a gardener's cottage in 1885 by Alfred Waterhouse. The building is constructed of red brick, featuring raised brick panel patterns in the gables, corbelled corners, and toothed verges. It has a plain tile roof with gabled ends and a central brick axial stack with brick shafts and a corbelled brick cap.
The cottage has a cruciform plan and stands two storeys high with asymmetrical elevations. The gable ends of the wings showcase patterned brickwork and have 3 and 4-light casements with glazing bars in the top lights, set in segmental arch openings. There is a wooden lean-to open porch supported by a timber post, featuring an arch and studding above, and a segmental-headed doorway with a plank door. The main roof extends down as a catslide over an outshut at the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Gardeners Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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