Garden Cottage (Howletts Zoo Park) is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1967. House.

Garden Cottage (Howletts Zoo Park)

WRENN ID
roaming-keystone-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Canterbury
Constituency
Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 January 1967
Type
House
Address
Garden Cottage (Howletts Zoo Park), Bekesbourne Lane, Bekesbourne-With-Patrixbourne
OS grid reference
TR 195 564
Coordinates
51.26484, 1.14567
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Garden Cottage, located within Howletts Zoo Park, dates from the late 17th century to early 18th century. This two-storey building features attics in the gable end and is constructed of red brick. It has a tiled roof with one hipped dormer and shaped Dutch gable ends on both the north and south sides. The eaves cornice is adorned with brick cogging, and there is an 8-stringcourse. The cottage has three casement windows, some of which are blocked, and a four-centred brick doorcase.

Local climate

Garden Cottage (Howletts Zoo Park) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Garden Wall and Gatepiers at Howletts (Howletts Zoo Park) Grade II 36 m
  2. Howletts Farmhouse Grade II 160 m
  3. Howletts (Howletts Zoo Park) Grade II* 303 m
  4. Former Stables to Howletts (Howletts Zoo Park) Grade II 338 m
  5. Star Cottage Grade II 676 m
  6. Parsonage Farmhouse Grade II 708 m
  7. Woolton Farmhouse Grade II 720 m
  8. The Old Vicarage Grade II 764 m
  9. Cobham Court Grade II 909 m
  10. The Old Palace Grade II 913 m