Rock House and Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Rock House and Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- plain-latch-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rock House and Rose Cottage, Smithy Bank, Alton, ST10 4AA
- OS grid reference
- SK 072 421
- Coordinates
- 52.97621, -1.89354
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock House and Rose Cottage are a pair of semi-detached houses dating to circa 1840, situated on Smithy Bank in Alton. Constructed of ashlar with edged herring-bone tooling, and featuring smooth-faced ashlar dressings, they are built in the Tudor Gothic style. The roofs are slate with coped verges, and the stacks are integral brick and ashlar. Rock House, the northern property, projects westward. Rose Cottage, to the south, is set back. Rock House has two storeys, a boldly projecting eaves cornice, and two bays. It features 2-light chamfer mullioned windows in rebated frames, and a central blind doorway with a 4-centred head containing a window. Rose Cottage mirrors Rock House in appearance with a projecting eaves cornice, 2 bays, 2-light chamfered mullioned windows in rebated frames, and a centrally positioned doorway with a 4-centred head.
Local climate
Rock House and Rose Cottage receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2002
- 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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