Gardens Cottage, Gosford House is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 January 1993.
Gardens Cottage, Gosford House
- WRENN ID
- outer-oriel-briar
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1993
- OS grid reference
- NT 455 791
- Coordinates
- 56.00193, -2.87488
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Gardens Cottage, also known as Gosford Gardener’s Cottage, is an earlier to mid-19th century single-story T-plan cottage located to the west of the Garden Plantation within the Gosford Estate. The cottage is constructed of squared and snecked red sandstone with ashlar dressings, featuring chamfered reveals, hoodmoulds, and crowstepped gables, one of which is topped with a ball finial.
The three-bay entrance elevation incorporates an advanced gable to the right and a columned porch in the re-entrant angle. The porch has a crowstepped and finialled ashlar gabled canopy. The entrance door has a six-pane fanlight above it. Stone mullioned Tudor-arch bipartites with lying panes are present to the left and in the advanced gable on the right. A lean-to wooden porch is located at the rear, and the windows are sash and case with lying-pane glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and features coped ashlar stacks.
Historic maps of Haddingtonshire from 1854 and 1892 show the cottage’s location and form. Gardens Cottage is part of a group of buildings associated with the wider Gosford Estate, and further information can be found in notes relating to Gosford House.
Local climate
Gardens Cottage, Gosford House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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