Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1988. House.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- distant-pier-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rose Cottage, 3, Shaws Drive
- OS grid reference
- SJ 226 899
- Coordinates
- 53.40067, -3.16463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is an 18th-century house located on the south side of Shaws Drive in Meols, Hoylake. This one-storey building is constructed of stone and features a thatched roof. It has six irregular bays, which include one horizontally sliding sash window, one small paned casement, and one small light, while the others are fitted with 20th-century casements. The entrance is marked by a 20th-century glazed porch. The house has two cross-axial stacks and a gable-end stack. The right side facing the street has a coped gable, and the rear of the house is similar in design.
Local climate
Rose Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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