Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1952. House. 3 related planning applications.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-bailey-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rose Cottage, Beach Road, TQ1 3LX
- OS grid reference
- SX 929 653
- Coordinates
- 50.47793, -3.51017
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a small house dating from the 1840s, located on Beach Road in Babbacombe, Torquay. It is part of a group of picturesque houses built on a steep, wooded cliffside above Babbacombe beach. The house has a symmetrical three-window facade. Its construction includes a single-depth main block with two rooms, a central entrance, and a hipped thatched roof with rendered chimney shafts at each end. The front has a two-leaf door with a fanlight featuring spoke glazing bars. There are two ground-floor casement windows and three first-floor casement windows. The first-floor windows have diagonal glazing bars in the head, replacing the leaded glazing noted in a previous listing. A replacement timber verandah with a slated roof extends across the front of the building. The interior has not been inspected, but may contain features of interest.
Local climate
Rose Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 14 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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