Rose Cottage and Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.

Rose Cottage and Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers

WRENN ID
stranded-sandstone-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1986
Type
House
Address
Rose Cottage and Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers, High Green, Romaldkirk, DL12 9DZ
OS grid reference
NY 993 220
Coordinates
54.59387, -2.01152
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rose Cottage is a house dated 1732, with alterations and additions made in the late 19th century. It stands on the north side of Romaldkirk High Green, alongside a front garden wall and gate piers also dating to the 19th century.

The house is constructed of squared sandstone rubble with a blue-slate roof and stone chimney stacks. A dressed sandstone wall runs along the front. It is two storeys high, with three bays, a central doorway, and alternating quoins. The door entablature, partially hidden by a mid-20th century stone porch (which is not of special interest), has a panelled frieze inscribed "17 I:W:P 32." The ends of the cornice project forward over volutes. Windows are set within projecting, nearly-square surrounds and include replaced four-pane sash windows and blocked fire window to the right, with replaced twelve-pane casements to the left and above. The roof has end stacks with top ledges and water tables. A semicircular bread oven projects towards the rear of the right return, and a one-storey rear outshut is also present.

A low garden wall runs along the front, featuring a pair of tooled-and-margined gate piers at its centre and a curved section to the right.

Local climate

Rose Cottage and Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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