Rosemary Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
Rosemary Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quiet-soffit-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rosemary Cottage, 1 and 2, Baldock Road, Cottered, SG9 9PS
- OS grid reference
- TL 317 293
- Coordinates
- 51.94716, -0.08383
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rosemary Cottage is a house that has been divided into two homes. It dates from the 17th century, with a floor added in the early 18th century. The structure features a timber frame on a stucco plinth, with roughcast and weatherboarding at the rear and ends. It has a steep thatched roof and two yellow brick chimneys. The house is one and a half storeys tall and follows a three-cell, central chimney plan, set back from the road and facing south. The central chimney is located a third of the way from the west, and there is an external gable chimney at the east, both made of yellow brick. There are two gabled thatched dormers at the eaves, each with two-light casement windows. A gabled porch leads to a plank door into the middle room, flanked by two windows on each side, and there is a smaller gabled porch for a door near the west corner. Inside, the cottage features exposed square oak joists and a chamfered and stopped cross-beam in the middle room.
Local climate
Rosemary Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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 — 6 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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