Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- former-render-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rose Cottage, 58, High Street, Great Barford, MK44 3JJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 131 521
- Coordinates
- 52.15568, -0.34732
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on High Street in Great Barford. It features a timber frame that is covered with colour-washed rough cast and has a thatched roof. The cottage has a two-room layout and is one storey high with attics. It includes one two-light casement window with glazing bars and one two-light horizontal sash window, also with glazing bars. There is a plank door on the right side of the building. A red brick double ridge stack is present, and there is a lean-to addition at the rear.
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 98% 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 53% 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 0.4°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 — 1 transaction since 2017
- 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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