Rose Cottage and Leacroft is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1988. Cottage.

Rose Cottage and Leacroft

WRENN ID
low-loft-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 January 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Rose Cottage and Leacroft, Forest Road, Onehouse, IP14 3ER
OS grid reference
TM 024 594
Coordinates
52.19644, 0.96017
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rose Cottage and Leacroft are a pair of cottages built in the late 16th century, possibly incorporating an earlier structure. They are one storey high with attics and have a three-cell plan. The cottages are timber-framed and plastered, with a pantiled roof that was likely originally thatched. There is a central chimney made of red brick from the 16th or 17th century, which was capped in the 19th century with gault brick.

Leacroft features a 19th-century casement window and a four-panelled entrance door from the same period. Rose Cottage has mid-20th-century small-pane casements and a glazed porch with a boarded door. Inside Rose Cottage, there are late 16th-century chamfered ceiling joists in the hall and a lintelled open fireplace typical of the 17th century. The wall framing from the 16th century has been significantly altered in the 18th century.

Local climate

Rose Cottage and Leacroft 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 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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