Gardener's Cottage at Ashfold School is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1985. Cottage.

Gardener's Cottage at Ashfold School

WRENN ID
knotted-keep-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 February 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Gardener's Cottage at Ashfold School, Dorton
OS grid reference
SP 679 140
Coordinates
51.82118, -1.01496
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gardener's Cottage at Ashfold School is a building that dates from the late 16th century to early 17th century and has been altered over time. The structure is made of thin brick, primarily in English bond with blue diaper patterns, and features a rubble stone plinth with chamfered coping. It has an old tile roof and external 20th-century brick chimneys on each gable. The cottage is two storeys tall with an attic and consists of three bays.

The gable ends have two-light stone mullion windows with moulded stone cornices. The lower window on the west end has been altered to serve as a doorway, while the lower window on the east end has been blocked by a chimney. Some of the windows have leaded lights. The west gable also features a similar single light window in the attic. The south front, which faces the garden, has a central door with a four-centred stone arch. Most of the windows on the north and south sides were inserted in the 19th and 20th centuries and include sashes and wooden casements.

Inside, the ground floor was originally a single space with stop-chamfered cross beams. It has massive tie beams, with those on the gable walls resting on moulded stone corbels, and those between the bays shaped into four-centred arches. The queen strut trusses were altered in the 17th century.

Local climate

Gardener's Cottage at Ashfold School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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