Rose Cottage and Little Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House.
Rose Cottage and Little Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-threshold-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rose Cottage and Little Rose Cottage, Sleapshyde Lane, Colney Heath
- OS grid reference
- TL 202 068
- Coordinates
- 51.7478, -0.25885
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage and Little Rose Cottage are a pair of houses built in a single long range, likely as adjoining units, dating from the late 17th century. There is an early 20th-century extension to Rose Cottage. The buildings are constructed with a timber frame and feature weatherboarding, topped with a plain tile roof. They are two storeys high, with the earlier part showcasing a large central chimney stack that has two tall square shafts that meet at their corbelled upper courses. The houses have three assorted casement windows; the two left first-floor windows appear to be late 17th-century casements, while the others are 19th or 20th-century wood glazing bar casements, except for a cast iron casement located to the left of the door to Little Rose Cottage. The 20th-century extension matches the original details.
Local climate
Rose Cottage and Little 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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