Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- mired-timber-sorrel
- 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, Ridgewell, CO9 4SG
- OS grid reference
- TL 736 407
- Coordinates
- 52.03803, 0.53102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, altered in the 20th century. It is timber-framed, with plaster infilling and a thatched roof. The house has three bays aligned northeast to southwest, with an axial chimney stack at the northeast end of the middle bay, facing northwest. A single-storey lean-to extension was added in the 20th century to the southwest end, and a further 20th-century extension exists to the rear of the northeast end. The cottage is single-storey with attics. A 20th-century door is set within a thatched gabled porch, and there are three 20th-century casement windows, plus one window in a 20th-century eyebrow dormer. The interior features jowled posts, arched bracing trenched inside heavy studs, plain-chamfered axial beams, and horizontal section joists. The ground floor hearth has been rebuilt. At the southwest end of the middle bay is a pair of doorways with reused 15th-century mouldings.
Local climate
Rose Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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