Rosemary Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage.
Rosemary Cottage
- WRENN ID
- other-pilaster-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rosemary Cottage, Church Road, Gosfield, Essex, CO9 1TL
- OS grid reference
- TL 781 295
- Coordinates
- 51.9359, 0.59001
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rosemary Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with some later alterations. It features a timber frame with plaster and has a red plain tiled roof that includes two gabled dormers. There is a right external red brick chimney stack with its original base, as well as a red brick chimney stack at the rear. The building is one storey with attics, and there is a single storey lean-to extension with a grey slate roof on the right. The cottage has a two-window range of 20th-century small paned casements, with shutters on the ground floor windows. The central entrance has a glazed door with a flat canopy above it, and there is also a glazed door leading to the right lean-to extension.
Local climate
Rosemary Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
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