Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ruined-terrace-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rose Cottage, 6, High Street, Swavesey
- OS grid reference
- TL 361 689
- Coordinates
- 52.30166, -0.00488
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a cottage that was rebuilt in the late 18th century or early 19th century from an earlier structure. It is constructed of gault brick and features a long straw thatched roof with end stacks. The building has one storey and an attic. The central entrance consists of a panelled door set within a segmental brick arch. There are two horizontal sliding sash windows, also with similar arches, and two dormer windows that have horizontal sliding sashes.
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 95% 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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