Kitchen Garden Walls and Gate Piers and Gardener's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1983. Kitchen garden walls, cottage.

Kitchen Garden Walls and Gate Piers and Gardener's Cottage

WRENN ID
scarred-shingle-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cotswold
Constituency
North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 August 1983
Type
Kitchen garden walls, cottage
Address
Kitchen Garden Walls and Gate Piers and Gardener's Cottage, Blockley
OS grid reference
SP 168 365
Coordinates
52.02685, -1.75525
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The kitchen garden walls, gate piers, and gardener's cottage at Northwick Park date from before 1843. The walls are long, standing 9 feet high, and enclose an irregularly shaped kitchen garden. They feature a coped top, wall buttresses, and a brick lining, with a ha-ha replacing the wall to the east. In the center of the west wall is an L-plan cottage that is two storeys tall, constructed from coursed and squared rubble with hipped slate roofs. The south front of the cottage has two windows, including tripartite glazing bar sashes on the first floor to the left and an angled bay window on the ground floor to the right, along with a plain doorway. The gate piers at the south corner have slightly pyramidal capping.

Local climate

Kitchen Garden Walls and Gate Piers and Gardener's Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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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