Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1993. House. 1 related planning application.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-pavement-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1993
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rose Cottage, Former Station Master's House, Now Known As Rose Cottage, Station Lane, Thetford, Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TL 867 837
- Coordinates
- 52.41947, 0.74477
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a two-storey, two-bay house built from knapped flint with gault brick dressings and a slate-clad roof, dating from the 18th century. The building has a picturesque appearance with a rectangular plan and a projecting porch on the west side.
The exterior features blocked quoins and a steeply pitched roof with coped gable ends and tumbled in brick kneelers. A central chimney rises through the ridge of the roof, topped with two tall angled stacks that have oversailing brick courses and circular pots. The principal elevation faces west and includes a gabled porch on the left side, which contains a timber door with vertical panels set beneath a four-centred brick arch. This elevation is also adorned with a centrally placed window on the ground floor and two symmetrically placed windows on the first floor. These windows are iron casements with lattice glazing bars, framed by ornamental surrounds made of blocked brick. The south return of the house has two windows on each floor; the upper left window is blind, while the lower right features a late 20th-century casement. The other two elevations were not inspected. The interior has not been examined.
Local climate
Rose Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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