Gardeners Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1996. House.
Gardeners Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-gargoyle-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest National Park
- Constituency
- New Forest East MP: Sir Julian Lewis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1996
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gardeners Cottage, Exbury and Lepe
- OS grid reference
- SZ 447 987
- Coordinates
- 50.78651, -1.36632
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gardener's Cottage is a house built around the late 18th century or early 19th century, with some alterations made in the late 19th century. It is constructed of red brick in English and Flemish garden wall bond, featuring some burnt headers and stretchers. The front wall is rendered, and there is a stone rubble plinth and rear wall. The roof is covered with clay plain tiles, has gabled ends, and includes some old crested ridge-tiles. Brick stacks are located at the gable ends, topped with white clay pots.
The house has a double-depth plan with a central entrance. The front features two rooms: a parlour on the right and a kitchen on the left, along with a small service room in an integral outshut at the rear. The exterior is two storeys high with an attic and presents a symmetrical two-window south front. The windows are late 19th-century two-light casements with glazing bars. The central doorway has a plank door and is sheltered by a wooden gabled porch with lattice sides. High in the roof are late 19th-century gabled dormers with two-light casements and glazing bars. There are small attic windows in the gable ends, also with casements.
At the rear, the roof extends down to low eaves in a catslide over the outshut. The rear wall is made of stone rubble and features a brick stack on the right, small casements, and a central plank door. Inside, the front rooms have boxed-in cross-beams, and the kitchen on the left includes a large fireplace. The interior joinery reportedly features ledged and braced doors.
Local climate
Gardeners Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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