Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1977. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusted-terrace-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rose Cottage, 160, Main Street, Swithland, LE12 8TJ
- OS grid reference
- SK 551 130
- Coordinates
- 52.7121, -1.18506
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage located on the south side of Swithland Main Street. It is constructed from slate and granite rubble stone, with a red brick gable on the right side, topped by a Swithland slate roof and featuring red brick end stacks. The cottage has two storeys, with two sets of three-light casement windows that have brick cambered lintels. There is a 20th-century central door that is sheltered by a slated hood. To the left, there is an outshut with a door and a two-light casement window above it. On the right side, there is a one-storey extension that includes a four-light casement window, and further to the right, there is a lower extension with garage doors.
Local climate
Rose Cottage 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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- 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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