Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A C16 House.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- white-tin-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rose Cottage, Ford Street, Aldham
- OS grid reference
- TL 920 269
- Coordinates
- 51.90768, 0.79091
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a 16th century house with an 18th century front elevation. It features a long range that is timber framed and plastered at the north end, pebble dashed in the center, and constructed of red brick in Flemish bond at the south end. The building stands two storeys high with a ridge and gable roof that is peg-tiled and has a modillion cornice. There are two chimney stacks and two pedimented front doors. The windows are a mix of modern types, including two pairs of hornless six-pane sashes on the south frontage. The rear elevation has black weatherboards in the center and on the north end.
Local climate
Rose Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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