Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1984. Cottage.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scattered-jade-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rose Cottage, 4, Vicarage Lane, Barkby
- OS grid reference
- SK 639 097
- Coordinates
- 52.68125, -1.05529
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a cottage dated 1766, constructed of brick with a plinth and a Swithland slate roof. The building has two storeys and a two-unit plan, featuring a central doorway framed by a bracketed architrave. The outer windows have cambered brick arched heads; the left window is a three-light horizontally sliding sash, while the right window has been renewed. The upper windows have also been renewed. A plain brick sill band and a dentilled eaves cornice add to the architectural detail, and there are gable end stacks.
Local climate
Rose Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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