Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1987. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- young-postern-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rose Cottage, School Lane, Bythorn and Keyston, PE28 0QS
- OS grid reference
- TL 056 757
- Coordinates
- 52.36998, -0.44902
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a late 18th-century cottage with alterations from the 19th century. It is timber-framed and plastered, with painted brick and limestone rubble construction. The roof is thatched and has red brick end stacks. The cottage is a long, single-storey range with an attic, featuring a tumbled brick parapet gable facing the street. It has two ground-floor three-light casement windows and a 20th-century door, alongside two eyebrow casement windows in the attic. Inside, there is an open hearth and boxed ceiling beams.
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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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