Rosfry Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. A C18 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Rosfry Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- winter-bastion-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rosfry Farmhouse, 38, Main Street, Empingham, LE15 8PS
- OS grid reference
- SK 953 087
- Coordinates
- 52.6685, -0.59141
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rosfry Farmhouse is a cottage dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of coursed squared stone and rubble stone, topped with a thatched roof featuring a buff brick ridge and moulded stone end stacks. The building has one and a half storeys, with three sets of three-light centre-opening casements, along with one similar three-light and two two-light eyebrow dormers above. The central entrance is a 20th-century part-glazed door, accompanied by a buttress to the right. The ground floor features stone lintels. At the rear, there is an outhouse wing with a Collyweston slate roof and a 20th-century one-storey extension that includes a brick stack.
Local climate
Rosfry Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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