Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silent-garret-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rose Cottage, 160, Caxton End, Bourn, CB23 2ST
- OS grid reference
- TL 317 572
- Coordinates
- 52.19803, -0.07385
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage located on the east side of Caxton End in Bourn. It features a timber-framed structure that is plastered, with a plastered plinth. The cottage has a thatched roof and a plastered ridge stack. It is one storey high with an attic and has a three-unit plan. The entrance consists of a boarded door situated to the right of the center, and there are three horizontal sliding sash windows, including two that have three lights. Additionally, there are two gabled dormer windows.
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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- 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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