Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Cottage.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stark-hammer-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rose Cottage, Slab Lane, Downton
- OS grid reference
- SU 184 214
- Coordinates
- 50.99244, -1.73824
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a detached cottage built in the mid-19th century. It features Flemish bond brickwork with vitrified headers and has an ornamental tiled roof with gable-end brick stacks. The cottage is two stories high and has two windows on the front. The central entrance is a half-glazed door with a cambered head, flanked by two-light casement windows. On the first floor, there are two more two-light casements, and all window openings have cambered heads. The right side of the cottage has a two-light casement window on both the ground and first floors, and the roof has deep gables. The left side does not have any windows. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Rose Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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