Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1999. Office.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solemn-chapel-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1999
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Rose Cottage, South Yard, City of Plymouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 449 541
- Coordinates
- 50.36678, -4.18105
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is an overseers' office built between 1850 and 1860. It is constructed from snecked limestone ashlar and features a hipped slate roof with an ashlar ridge stack. The building has a two-room plan, with each room having a separate entry. It is a single storey structure with a two-window northern front, which has segmental arches over two horned 3/3-pane sash windows. At each end of the front, there are round-arched doorways with flush panelled doors and plain fanlights. The eastern end has a similar window, and there are similar sashes in a canted bay window with a cornice on the western side. The rear of the building has a three-window range, with the middle window being blind.
Inside, the interior was altered around 1985 and features back-to-back central fireplaces. The room on the right includes a late 20th-century Classical style fireplace with an iron grate and a decorative tile surround. The large bay window indicates the building's original purpose for supervising the Yard, making it quite a rare example. Rose Cottage is part of an outstanding group of naval manufacturing buildings.
Local climate
Rose Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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