West Rosedown Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1987. House. 1 related planning application.

West Rosedown Cottage

WRENN ID
rusted-courtyard-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 November 1987
Type
House
Address
West Rosedown Cottage, Linkinhorne, PL14 5AU
OS grid reference
SX 277 716
Coordinates
50.51904, -4.43052
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

West Rosedown Cottage is a house that was originally part of the West Rosedown Mine, built in the mid-19th century, possibly incorporating earlier structures, and has seen few alterations since. The cottage is constructed of rendered stone rubble and partly features slate hanging. It has a slurried slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends, along with gable end stacks.

The plan consists of two rooms with a central entrance, and each room is heated by a gable end stack. Upon entering, there is a stair hall. There is a single-storey lean-to addition on the left side that dates from the later 19th century.

The exterior is two storeys high with a symmetrical two-window front. All windows are 16-pane sashes from the 19th century, and the ground floor has quoins on the sides. The front is painted, and there is a central 20th-century gabled porch with a door to the side. The left side has a single-storey lean-to with a 20th-century window at the front and side. The right side is slate-hung and features an external weathered stack, while the left side is rendered.

At the rear, the cottage is slate-hung and has a 16-pane sash window on the first floor to the right and left, with a smaller 12-pane sash in the centre that lights the stair. On the ground floor to the left, there is a four-pane sash window, and to the right, there is a single-storey 20th-century addition. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

West Rosedown Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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