Old School House Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Old School House Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- brooding-mantel-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old School House Rose Cottage, Buildwas, TF8 7DA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 637 046
- Coordinates
- 52.63882, -2.53664
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage and Old School House is a house that has been divided into two separate residences. It likely dates from the 17th century and was extended in the early 19th century, with later additions and alterations. The building features a timber frame with painted brick infill, painted brick, and rubblestone casing, topped with machine tile roofs. It is designed in an L-shape, with a flush cross-wing (the Old School House) on the left and an extended former hall (Rose Cottage) on the right.
The structure is one storey with an attic. The timber framing is exposed on the Old School House, showcasing one rectangular and one square panel from the cill to the wall plate, along with long straight tension braces and V-struts from the collar to the front gable. The windows are irregularly placed, featuring one late 19th-century cast-iron latticed casement on each floor of the cross-wing, and three late 20th-century casements on the former hall—one to the left and two to the right of a roughly central entrance. Above, there are two contemporary flat-roofed eaves dormers. The building has an axial red brick ridge stack to the left of the hall range, with end stacks to the right and at the rear gable of the cross-wing. The entrance to the Old School House is located in the left return. The interior has not been inspected but is reported to retain the timber frame substantially intact.
Local climate
Old School House Rose Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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 — 3 transactions since 2019
- 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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