Rose Cottage and Adjoining Well Head is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. Cottage, well head.

Rose Cottage and Adjoining Well Head

WRENN ID
endless-screen-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Kesteven
Constituency
Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
Country
England
Type
Cottage, well head
Address
Rose Cottage and Adjoining Well Head, NG32 1HB
OS grid reference
SK 884 326
Coordinates
52.88397, -0.68772
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Rose Cottage and the adjoining well head is an estate cottage, now functioning as a house, built around 1700 and remodelled between 1820 and 1840, with additional alterations and extensions made in the mid-20th century. The structure is constructed of rubble, rendered and whitewashed, with the first floor partly covered in fishscale tiles. It features ashlar dressings and a pantile roof topped with a coped brick ridge stack.

The building stands two storeys high and has a six-window range. Most windows are 19th-century casements with leaded glazing; the first-floor windows have wooden mullions, while the ground floor has stone mullions. The gable facing the street has a stepped external brick stack with ashlar dressings and two flues, one of which is terracotta and crenellated. To the left of this gable is a two-light window, and to the right is a three-light window.

On the right side of the building, there is a hipped stone stair turret with a small window and an adjoining square ashlar external stack featuring a stone-banded square flue. There are various 19th- and 20th-century windows, including an 18th-century two-light ground floor window with ovolo mullions. The left side of the building has a two-light window on each floor, with additional first-floor windows to the left.

A central single-storey flat-roofed addition includes a five-light window and a door. Between the cottage and the well head is a square ashlar well head with slab coping and a round projection at the front, topped with a stone bracket that supports a crane and pulley. This building is noted for its picturesque style remodelled by Gregory Gregory, Lord of the Manor of Harlaxton, following the design principles of J.C. Loudon. It is included for its group value.

Local climate

Rose Cottage and Adjoining Well Head sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Woodbine Cottage and Attached Wall and Steps Grade II 24 m
  2. Ivy Cottage Grade II 24 m
  3. Boundary Wall and Gateway at Ivy Cottage Grade II 42 m
  4. Village Cross Grade II 49 m
  5. The Lilacs the Old Post Office Grade II 52 m
  6. Conygree Grade II 58 m
  7. Gateway and Boundary Wall to Conygree Grade II 63 m
  8. 10 and 12, Church Street Grade II 72 m
  9. Vine Cottage Grade II 85 m
  10. 22 and 24, High Street Grade II 92 m