Gardener's Cottage at Apethorpe Palace is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 2001. Cottage.
Gardener's Cottage at Apethorpe Palace
- WRENN ID
- strange-niche-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 2001
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- TL 022 952
- Coordinates
- 52.54534, -0.4935
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gardener's Cottage at Apethorpe Palace is a cottage built around 1905 by Sir Reginald Blomfield for Lord Brassey. It is constructed from coursed Edith Weston stone with stone dressings and features a Collyweston slate roof with coped gables, finials, and moulded stone stacks. The cottage is designed in a Vernacular Revival style, showcasing stone mullioned windows, mostly with lead casements, and hoodmoulds.
The plan consists of a single depth, four-unit layout with a staircase located to the center left. It is a single storey with an attic and includes a two-storey porch that faces the entrance, featuring a basket-arched doorway leading to a porch with settles on either side and a part-glazed door. There are two 2-light windows on the sides of the porch and a 3-light window above it. The front of the cottage has a 3-light window to the left and two 2-light windows to the right. Each gable end has a 5-light window on both floors, while the rear features 3- and 4-light wood casements under wood lintels, along with a twin-gabled dormer and a single-storey wing.
Inside, the cottage includes a stick baluster staircase, 2-panel doors, and cast-iron fireplaces in the bedrooms. This Gardener's Cottage is part of a significant group with the Walled Gardens and other structures surrounding Apethorpe Palace. The gardens are listed in the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade II.
Local climate
Gardener's Cottage at Apethorpe Palace sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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