Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1993. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- long-alcove-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1993
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rose Cottage, 38, Town Hill, West Malling, ME19 6QN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 681 580
- Coordinates
- 51.29709, 0.4103
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a 17th-century cottage, originally a public house known as 'The Volunteer', that was rebuilt in the 17th century, altered in the 18th century, and refaced in the early 19th century. The building is situated sideways to the street. It has a stuccoed exterior on a deep plinth, with a very steeply pitched tiled roof and one brick chimneystack. End quoins mark the corners. The cottage is two stories high, with two windows on the front elevation, featuring 16-pane sashes. A central, round-headed doorcase contains a blank fanlight and a six-panelled door, with the top two panels glazed. The side elevation facing Town Hill has two 12-pane sashes with cambered heads on the ground floor. There are three cross-shaped iron ties visible on the façade. A blank panel is present on the first floor, and a thick band runs across both elevations, originally displaying the name of the public house.
Local climate
Rose Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 3 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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