Rose Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Rose Cottages
- WRENN ID
- drifting-vault-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rose Cottages, 1 and 2, High Street, St. Ippolyts, SG4 7QQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 187 271
- Coordinates
- 51.93059, -0.27412
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottages is a house, now divided into two homes, dating from the early 18th century. It has been altered and divided in the 19th century. The building features chequered red brick with black headers and a steeply pitched slate roof. It stands two storeys high with attics and has a two-cells, end chimneys plan. The house is set back slightly from the road, facing west at the corner with Mill Lane. It includes a former rear stair tower flanked by 19th-century two-storey outshuts under an extended rear roof slope at a lower pitch. There are internal gable chimneys at both the north and south ends.
The west front has a plat band and a flat painted soffit to the projecting front eaves, supported by brick corbels at each end. The symmetrical front features two windows on each floor and now has two doors in the middle. There are two box dormers on the roof slope with casements. The wide recessed sash windows have 8/8 panes, with lintel heads on the first floor and flat gauged arched heads on the ground floor. The doors are plank style. The original rear stair tower also has a plat band and two casement windows.
Local climate
Rose Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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 2003
- 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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