Gardeners Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. Cottage.

Gardeners Cottage

WRENN ID
sunken-footing-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wokingham
Constituency
Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 October 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
Gardeners Cottage, Broadcommon Road, St. Nicholas, Hurst
OS grid reference
SU 799 737
Coordinates
51.45685, -0.85002
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gardeners Cottage is a 18th-century brick cottage with an old tile roof, located on the north side of Broadcommon Road in St Nicholas Hurst. The building stands two storeys tall and features a southwest front with five bays, each containing three-light leaded casement windows. There are two doors, both set within 19th-century gabled porches; one is located in the second bay from the left, and the other is positioned between the third and fourth bays.

Local climate

Gardeners Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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