Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. Cottage.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-pinnacle-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rose Cottage, Kimbolton Road, Bolnhurst and Keysoe
- OS grid reference
- TL 086 597
- Coordinates
- 52.22553, -0.41046
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on Kimbolton Road in Bolnhurst. It features a colour-washed rough cast exterior over a timber frame and has a thatched roof. The cottage consists of three bays and is one storey high with attics. There is a red brick double ridge stack and a red brick integral stack at the south gable end. A plank door is positioned in line with the chimney. The ground floor has two 2-light casement windows, and there is a dormer with a 2-light horizontal sash window, all of which include glazing bars. Additionally, there is a one-storey lean-to extension at the front south side, which has a slate roof.
Local climate
Rose Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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