Garden's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. Cottage.
Garden's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stony-pewter-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Garden's Cottage, Melbury Sampford
- OS grid reference
- ST 574 060
- Coordinates
- 50.85238, -2.60566
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden's Cottage is a late 18th century cottage and outhouse that backs onto a kitchen garden wall. The building features brick walls in English bond with a brick parapet and stone coping. It has a slate roof with gable ends and a large brick stack that was rebuilt in the 18th century. The cottage is two storeys high and has three windows, which are three-light iron casements with lead lights, and a two-light window at the centre upper level. The windows are topped with segmental brick arches and have wooden cills. The front door, located at the centre of the ground floor, has fielded panels and two top lights, dating from the 20th century. There is an attached range built with the same materials, featuring a 20th-century brick stack at the centre ridge. This range is also two storeys high and has three windows, which are two-light cast-iron casements with glazing bars, along with a plank door and a two-leaf plank door.
Local climate
Garden's Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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