Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-pillar-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rose Cottage, Blaston, LE16 8DE
- OS grid reference
- SP 804 955
- Coordinates
- 52.55164, -0.81436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a house dating from around 1800. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone with quoins, although the ends are rendered, and it features a Welsh slate roof with rendered brick end stacks. The gables are topped with stone coping. The building has two storeys and includes three 2-light casement windows. On the ground floor, there are two 2-light wood mullion and transom windows on either side of a central glazed door, which has a 2-light overlight above it. There are also two 2-light dormer windows and, on the right end, two attic 1-light windows. At the rear, there is a two-storey extension and a 20th-century one-storey wing.
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 79% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- 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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