Rosemary Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1984. House.
Rosemary Cottage
- WRENN ID
- far-storey-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rosemary Cottage, Parsonage Downs, Great Dunmow, CM6 2AT
- OS grid reference
- TL 623 231
- Coordinates
- 51.88334, 0.35737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rosemary Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a hipped red plain tile roof featuring gables. The building has two storeys and a four-window range with 20th-century leaded casements. A 20th-century gabled porch is present, along with red brick chimney stacks. The cottage also includes one storey and attics, with a farm located to the north.
Local climate
Rosemary Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- No related consent applications matched
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