Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1998. House. 7 related planning applications.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rough-frieze-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1998
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rose Cottage, High Street, Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, SP5 5ND
- OS grid reference
- ST 996 171
- Coordinates
- 50.95415, -2.00581
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a house dating from around the late 18th century, with alterations and an extension added around the mid-20th century. The ground floor is built of flint, stone, and brick, while the first floor is of cob construction. The roof is thatched with half-hipped and gabled ends, including eyebrow eaves at the front.
The house was originally planned with two rooms, a central entrance, a heated room to the north-west, and an unheated room to the left. A 20th-century wing was added behind the left-hand room.
The front of the house, facing north-east, is almost symmetrical with two windows. It features 20th-century three-light metal-framed casement windows in enlarged openings, with tile sills. A central doorway has a plank door. A 20th-century, rendered gable-ended wing is located at the rear (south-west) on the right side.
Inside, the left-hand ground floor room has a thin, chamfered axial beam without stops. The right-hand ground floor room has a roughly framed ceiling and a 20th-century tiled fireplace. The interior joinery includes plank doors, and there is a late 19th-century cast-iron chimneypiece in the attic chamber. The attics are ceiled, but the structural roof principals are still visible.
Local climate
Rose Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 5 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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