Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Cottage.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- drifting-step-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rose Cottage, the Street, Ashen
- OS grid reference
- TL 747 423
- Coordinates
- 52.05199, 0.54675
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that has been extended in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with roughcast rendering and a thatched roof. The building consists of two bays aligned approximately north to south, with a near-central chimney stack on the west side. At the south end, there is a flat-roofed single-storey extension added in the 20th century. The cottage is single storey with attics and includes a four-panel door with glazed upper panels, two 20th-century casement windows, and one 19th-century casement window in a slated lean-to dormer. The roof is gambrel in style. Inside, there are chamfered axial beams, a wood-burning hearth facing south, a modern grate facing north, and some exposed framing. Roman numerals are inscribed on the wallplates. The current owners possess deeds dating back to 1703.
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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