Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1983. A C18 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Rose Cottage

WRENN ID
unlit-corbel-flax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Constituency
Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 June 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
Rose Cottage, South Street, Axminster, EX13 5AD
OS grid reference
SY 297 984
Coordinates
50.78128, -2.99738
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rose Cottage is an 18th-century roughcast cottage located on the east side of South Street in Axminster. It features a steeply pitched corrugated iron roof with a heavy modillion eaves cornice. The cottage is two storeys high and consists of three bays. It has 19th-century sash windows set in moulded casings. The central doorway is plain and includes a glazed and panelled door. There is a roughcast chimney stack at the gable end.

Local climate

Rose Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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