Rose Cottage the Match Box is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1987. Cottage, shop. 2 related planning applications.
Rose Cottage the Match Box
- WRENN ID
- idle-hammer-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1987
- Type
- Cottage, shop
- Address
- Rose Cottage the Match Box, 130 and 132, Christchurch Road, Ringwood, BH24 3AP
- OS grid reference
- SU 150 047
- Coordinates
- 50.84192, -1.78754
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage and The Match Box are a pair of cottages and an attached shop, dating back to the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries, and a 20th-century shop addition. The cottages are timber-framed with brick infill, painted and have a thatch and plain tile roof. The added shop is of rendered brick with a pantile roof. The cottages are two storeys and five bays in length, with three smoke or passage bays. The right-hand cottage has a right-hand end smoke bay, followed by a passage bay, then another bay with a plank door set into the end of the next bay, which is part of the adjoining cottage. It has 20th-century windows with night vents in two bays. The left-hand cottage has the remainder of the shared bay, a bay, passage bay, and another bay. A plank door is set into the passage bay. There are two-light casements in the bays either side and on the first floor of the shared bay. The roof is hipped to the left. A large stack is located over the shared bay, and another stack is at the right-hand end of the right-hand cottage. A lean-to shop is attached to the left-hand end with a shop window.
Local climate
Rose Cottage the Match Box receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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