Rose Cottage the Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. Cottage.

Rose Cottage the Old Cottage

WRENN ID
crooked-stone-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Guildford
Constituency
Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 May 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Rose Cottage the Old Cottage, Blacksmith Lane, St. Martha
OS grid reference
TQ 024 474
Coordinates
51.21708, -0.53494
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Cottage and Rose Cottage are a pair of cottages dating from the early 18th century. They are timber framed, featuring whitewashed rendered cladding on the front and weatherboarding on the right-hand return front, with a rubblestone plinth at the rear and a plain tiled roof. The buildings are two storeys high and have two stacks at the rear. The first floor has three two-light casement windows, while the ground floor has two windows. There are 19th-century doors on the left and right, each set in gabled porches. At the rear, there is a catslide roof extension and a flat roof extension to the right. Inside, some ceiling frames and wall partition frames made of thin scantling are exposed. The cottages may be associated with the Gunpowder Mills at Chilworth.

Local climate

Rose Cottage the Old Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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