Gardener's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1960. Cottage.

Gardener's Cottage

WRENN ID
small-flagstone-gilt
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cotswold
Constituency
North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 August 1960
Type
Cottage
Address
Gardener's Cottage, Sezincote
OS grid reference
SP 172 309
Coordinates
51.97678, -1.74956
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gardener's Cottage is located at the corner of a walled garden in Sezincote Park and dates from the early 19th century. It is constructed of ashlar stone with a slate roof and features ashlar stacks. The central portion of the cottage is square at the front and canted, with a canted portico at the rear. There are rectangular wings of equal length on either side. The central section slightly projects from the facade and includes a squat octagonal tower that forms the upper storey.

The entrance features a central six-panel door set within a four-centred arch, which has a plain architrave with an engaged palmette at the top. On either side of the door are single slit lights with ogee tops, each adorned with rosettes above. Above the door is a six-light window with glazing bars. The single-storey wings on either side of the central body have single blind windows with stepped and curved upper corners. The tower also has similar blind windows on each face. A central stack rises from the apex of the octagonal pyramidal roof, while the single-storey wings have hipped roofs. A decorative band below the eaves features stone brackets that support the roof above. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Gardener's Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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