The Gardener's Cottage About 10 Metres West of the Court, with Pump 5 Metres to West is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. Cottage.
The Gardener's Cottage About 10 Metres West of the Court, with Pump 5 Metres to West
- WRENN ID
- salt-span-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- ST 527 284
- Coordinates
- 51.05329, -2.67522
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gardener's Cottage, located about 10 metres west of The Court, is a late 18th-century cottage built from local lias stone that has been cut and squared. It features a hipped roof made of clay tiles and has a stone chimney stack. The cottage is two storeys high and consists of one bay. On the south side, there are two Gothic traceried casement windows, one on each level, along with a matching single window on the lower east side. The west elevation has horizontal-bar casement windows and a boarded door, while the north-west corner shows the bolection moulded jamb of a former doorway. Although the interior has not been seen, there is a garden pump located 5 metres to the west, which has a cast iron pillar, spout, and handle. The cottage forms a good grouping with The Court.
Local climate
The Gardener's Cottage About 10 Metres West of the Court, with Pump 5 Metres to West receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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