Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. House.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- turning-garret-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rose Cottage, Chequers Lane, Preston
- OS grid reference
- TL 176 250
- Coordinates
- 51.91114, -0.29105
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a house that features an early 18th-century exterior, likely covering an older structure. It is built of red narrow brick in Flemish bond, which probably serves as a casing for a timber frame. The house is two stories high with attics and has a two-cell, internal-chimney, lobby-entry plan. It faces south and includes a single-storey, short west service wing from the 18th century that is set back from the front. The large catslide rear outshut was rebuilt in the 20th century and has two hipped dormers on its roof.
The south front of the house has a low stucco plinth and a plat-band, with two windows on each floor and a door in between. There is a gabled timber porch, and light red dressings are present on the window jambs and corners of the house. The ground floor windows have cambered arches, and the slightly recessed two-light small-pane casement windows are featured throughout. The front door is a framed and moulded plank door set in a heavy moulded frame. In the gable, there is a small mullioned leaded two-light attic window with a plate casement, and the purlin and wallplate ends are visible in the gable walls.
Local climate
Rose Cottage 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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