Gardener's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1986. A C19 Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Gardener's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- errant-span-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gardener's Cottage, Petersham Lane, Holt, BH21 4JS
- OS grid reference
- SU 019 042
- Coordinates
- 50.8379, -1.97334
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gardener's Cottage is a mid-19th century house originally built as a lodge at the entrance to a park. It features brick walls and a tiled roof adorned with crested ridge tiles and carved bargeboards. The cottage is designed in the cottage orné style and has one storey with an attic.
The main elevation includes a projecting gabled wing on the left side, which has a ground floor canted bay window with casements that have horizontal glazing bars and a hipped roof. Above this bay window, on the first floor, there is a segmental-headed casement with horizontal glazing bars and a moulded stone lintel. The gable above features a curved-sided triangular stone panel inscribed with "RGG".
To the right of the wing is a porch with a catslide roof and an ornamental timber gabled hood supported by shaped brackets, leading to a ledged door. Adjacent to the porch, there is a range parallel to the road that has one ground floor casement under a segmental arch, and in the attic, there is a half dormer with a gabled roof and a casement with horizontal glazing bars. The house was extended to the rear in matching construction in the late 19th or early 20th century, contributing to its picturesque appearance.
Local climate
Gardener's Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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
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