Gardeners Cottage and Adjoining Gatehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1985. House, gatehouse. 2 related planning applications.

Gardeners Cottage and Adjoining Gatehouse

WRENN ID
watchful-oriel-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 February 1985
Type
House, gatehouse
Address
Gardeners Cottage and Adjoining Gatehouse, DT9 5JJ
OS grid reference
ST 677 185
Coordinates
50.96583, -2.45998
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gardeners Cottage and the adjoining gatehouse are a house and gatehouse that possibly date from the 15th century and 18th century. They are constructed from local stone that is roughly squared with coursed ashlar dressings. The house has a plain clay tile roof, while the gatehouse features stone slates, both with simple gables. There are brick and stone chimney stacks.

The house is two storeys high and has two bays. It features 2-light casement windows, with the lower windows having leaded lights set into segmental arched openings. The upper windows have pointed arched tracery with flat heads, also leaded. Between the bays, there is a boarded door with a small glazed panel in a segmental arched opening.

The gatehouse likely stands two storeys and has one bay. It includes a central 4-centre moulded arch doorway with an old studded boarded door. Above this doorway is the upper portion of a 3-light flat-arched window without a label, featuring lights with cinquefoil traceried heads. The lower part of this window is missing and the whole is blocked, making these features not obvious re-uses.

The interior has not been seen, but the gatehouse may have connections with Ven House.

Local climate

Gardeners Cottage and Adjoining Gatehouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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