Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- old-pediment-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rose Cottage, Thrapston Road, Kimbolton, PE28 0HW
- OS grid reference
- TL 098 679
- Coordinates
- 52.29869, -0.39002
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a house built between 1790 and 1800 by a local builder. It is constructed of local brick, with part of the exterior colour-washed. The house features a plain tiled mansard roof and has a ridge stack. It stands two storeys tall with attics, and includes two dormers. On the front, there are two later three-light casement windows flanking a smaller, similar window. Additionally, there are two canted bays on either side of the central doorway. The property is associated with the Kimbolton School Archives.
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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 transactions since 1996
- 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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