Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. A C19 House.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-wattle-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rose Cottage, Mill Road, Birdbrook
- OS grid reference
- TL 723 429
- Coordinates
- 52.0585, 0.51292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is an early 19th-century house designed in a Picturesque style. It is constructed of red brick in stretcher bond, with the front elevation primarily covered in fishscale red clay tiles and a slate roof. The house is aligned approximately north to south, with its main aspect facing east, and features a rear wing extending from the south end, complete with an end chimney stack.
The building is two storeys high and has a symmetrical front elevation. At the center, there is a slated gabled porch with fishscale tile-hanging on the sides and a half-glazed door. Flanking the porch are two Gothick windows, each adorned with scalloped bargeboards. At the half-floor level in the middle, there is a plain casement window, and above it, a Gothick arched window featuring Y-tracery. On the first floor, there are two additional Gothick windows. While most of the front elevation is tile-hung, there are short sections of red brick in stretcher bond at each end. The eaves are scalloped, and the roof has a hipped design with a shallow pitch.
Local climate
Rose Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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