Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 1987. A C17 Cottage.

Rose Cottage

WRENN ID
lunar-cellar-burdock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Constituency
Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 May 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Rose Cottage, Rockbeare
OS grid reference
SY 041 936
Coordinates
50.73471, -3.35907
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rose Cottage is a cottage that likely dates back to the 17th century and was refurbished in the late 19th century. It features plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with one end rebuilt in brick. There is one stone rubble or cob stack and another brick stack, both topped with 19th-century brick, and the roof is thatched. The cottage has a three-room plan and faces southeast. An axial stack serves back-to-back fireplaces located between the center and the right (northeastern) rooms, while the left end stack is in the rebuilt brick wall.

The cottage is two storeys high and has a regular but not symmetrical three-window front. All windows are 20th-century iron-framed casements, except for the first-floor right window, which is 19th-century with glazing bars. The main doorway is located left of center and is a 20th-century door behind a contemporary gabled porch with a tiled roof. There is also a secondary plank door at the right end. The roof is half-hipped to the right and gable-ended to the left. The left end wall is made of whitewashed brick, which imitates quoins on the front.

Inside, all beams are either covered or have been removed, and the fireplaces are blocked. The roof has not been inspected but is reported to include original A-frame trusses.

Local climate

Rose Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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