Rose Cottage Southolme is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1988. House.
Rose Cottage Southolme
- WRENN ID
- plain-steeple-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rose Cottage Southolme, Mendlesham Road, Cotton
- OS grid reference
- TM 071 669
- Coordinates
- 52.26166, 1.03388
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage and Southolme are two houses that were originally one, dating from the early 17th century. They are timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in clay plain tiles. The buildings have a three-cell layout and are two storeys high. They feature late 19th century four-paned sash windows, with one gabled dormer present. Rose Cottage has a six-panel door, where the upper two panels are glazed, and an enclosed gabled porch with decorative bargeboards. Southolme has a semi-glazed four-panel door. There is an internal stack and a gable stack to the left, both with 19th century shafts, and a one-storey lean-to on the right gable end.
Inside, Rose Cottage includes a parlour cell and a hall chamber, with the upper rooms showing studding that is papered over. The joists in the parlour cell are concealed, while the hall chamber features oak joists set flat. There is a 19th century newel stair. The timbers in Southolme are said to be entirely concealed.
Local climate
Rose Cottage Southolme sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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