Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1982. House. 4 related planning applications.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-flint-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rose Cottage, 45, Arlesey Road, Ickleford, SG5 3TG
- OS grid reference
- TL 183 317
- Coordinates
- 51.97188, -0.27818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a house dating from the 16th or early 17th century. It is timber-framed and has a roughcast exterior with a steep-pitched thatched roof featuring decorative ridge detailing. The house is 1 1/2 storeys high and faces west, set back from the road. Originally comprising three cells, it features an internal chimney located a third of the way from the south end, and an external chimney on the north gable. The west front has no windows in the south bay on the right-hand side, but two eyebrow dormers are present over the central and north bays. A three-light casement window is located on the ground floor in the middle bay, and a half-glazed porch with small panes is in the north bay on the left-hand side. The south gable has a three-light casement window on the ground floor, with a half-glazed panelled door to the left. A two-light casement window is above this on the first floor. The rear of the building features two small ground floor windows. The interior showcases exposed timbers of a three-bay frame, including jowled posts and curved tension braces, alongside Jacobean panelling to the staircase. A wide fireplace has been blocked.
Local climate
Rose 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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 2025
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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