Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1973. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-arch-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central MP: Bill Esterson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1973
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rose Cottage, Sandy Lane, Hightown, L38 3RD
- OS grid reference
- SD 303 033
- Coordinates
- 53.52206, -3.05206
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a farmhouse, now a house, probably built in the early 18th century, which has been enlarged and altered over time. It is constructed of handmade brick and has a slate roof. The original layout was likely a single-depth, two-unit baffle-entry plan, with an early addition of a third unit. There are also rear outshuts with catslide roofs that were added in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building has two low storeys, featuring two windows on the first floor of the main range. The doorway is located to the left and is now protected by a 20th-century wooden porch with a part-glazed door. To the right, there are two wide three-light windows on each floor, with segmental brick arches above the ground floor windows, all of which now have 20th-century casements. The third unit to the right has a two-light casement with a similar arch above it and four-pane glazing. There is an extruded brick chimney on the left gable and a ridge chimney at the junction to the right. A brick buttress is present at the former rear left corner, where it meets the 19th-century outshut. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Rose Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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