Gardeners Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Gardeners Cottage

WRENN ID
twelfth-alcove-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tonbridge and Malling
Constituency
Chatham and Aylesford MP: Tristan Osborne (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Gardeners Cottage, 29, Keepers Cottage Lane, Wouldham, ME1 3FH
OS grid reference
TQ 714 629
Coordinates
51.33933, 0.46006
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gardeners Cottage is a 16th-century cottage that was restored in the late 20th century. It features a random rubble plinth and a ground floor that is rendered, with applied framing and rendered infilling on the first floor. The roof is plain tiled and hipped to the left, with a projecting breast at the rear. The cottage is two storeys high and has a slightly irregular three-window front, which includes iron lattice casements and one doubled round-headed glazing bar sash on the right. The central entrance has a half-glazed door with a segmental head. It is possible that the building originally had a continuous jetty along the front, and there is a first-storey addition on the left. Inside, there is substantial timber framing and a queen-post side-purlin roof. Gardeners Cottage adjoins Granary Cottage on the right.

Local climate

Gardeners Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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