Rosewood Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1971. A Medieval House.

Rosewood Cottage

WRENN ID
tall-rood-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 July 1971
Type
House
Period
Medieval
Address
Rosewood Cottage, 6, Church Street, Wheathampstead
OS grid reference
TL 176 139
Coordinates
51.81158, -0.2945
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rosewood Cottage is a house that dates back to the late medieval period, with a front that was added in the late 18th century. The front is made of vitrified and plain red brick. There is a single-storey extension from the 18th or 19th century on the left side, creating an L-shaped plan. The building has one storey and attics, topped with a steep plain tile roof that features a 17th-century ridge chimney stack made of joined square shafts. There is also a 18th-century external stack on the roughcast west gable end. The central door has six fielded panels and is topped with a cut bracket hood. The front has two three-light casement windows with cambered heads, and the ground floor has panelled shutters. A floor band and dentilled brick eaves add to the detailing, while hipped dormers are present on the roof. The extension includes a square shop window from the 19th century.

Local climate

Rosewood 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 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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