Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1988. Cottage.

Garden Cottage

WRENN ID
shifting-wicket-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sevenoaks
Constituency
Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 July 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Garden Cottage, Chevening
OS grid reference
TQ 485 577
Coordinates
51.29934, 0.12902
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Garden Cottage is a head gardener's cottage built around 1775 and altered in the mid-19th century. The structure features part red brick in English bond, while the southeast front is faced with mathematical tiles. It has a hipped tiled roof with a brick chimneystack. The building is L-shaped and has two storeys, with three windows on the southeast and southwest fronts. The southeast front includes three sash windows with vertical glazing bars, horns, and moulded architraves. There is a central late 18th-century six fielded panelled door with a rectangular fanlight above it. A late 19th-century gabled wooden porch with seats is also present. The northwest and southwest fronts have 12-paned sashes, and the north front features a late 18th-century six flush panelled door.

Local climate

Garden Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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