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

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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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