Gardener's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Cottage.

Gardener's Cottage

WRENN ID
peeling-mullion-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1956
Type
Cottage
Address
Gardener's Cottage, 1, Whitcombe
OS grid reference
SY 716 882
Coordinates
50.69297, -2.40205
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gardener's Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the mid-18th century, although it has been heavily rebuilt in the 20th century. The cottage features coursed rubble stone walls with dressed stone quoins and a thatched roof with gable ends. It is 1½ storeys high and has three windows, which are two-light wood casements with glazing bars and tiled cills. There are three eyebrow dormers on the roof. The front door, located at the center, is a plank and glazed design from the 20th century. At the east end of the cottage, there is an outhouse with rubble walls and a half-hipped thatch roof.

Local climate

Gardener's Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% 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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