Rosechurch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 March 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Rosechurch Cottage

WRENN ID
far-forge-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Constituency
Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 March 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Rosechurch Cottage, Branscombe, EX12 3AX
OS grid reference
SY 196 885
Coordinates
50.69085, -3.13921
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rosechurch Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the 18th and 19th centuries, with renovations made around 1980. It is built from exposed local stone rubble, featuring stone rubble stacks with plastered brick chimney shafts, and has a thatched roof, although the early 20th-century roof is covered with concrete tiles. The cottage has a three-room layout facing southeast. The left room (southwest) has an axial stack that backs onto the center room, while the right room has a gable-end stack. There is a straight join between the left and center rooms, suggesting that the left room may have originally been a one-room cottage that was later enlarged or that another cottage was built alongside it; the evidence is unclear. In the early 20th century, a sunroom extension was added to the left end of the cottage. It is two stories tall.

The exterior features an irregular four-window front with 19th and 20th-century casements that include glazing bars, and there is a small 20th-century canted bay window to the right of center. The front doorway is located at the left end and has a 20th-century part-glazed door behind a contemporary thatch-roofed porch. The front was likely stuccoed in the 19th century, as indicated by a surviving quoin strip at the left end. The 20th-century extension at the left end features an arch-headed doorway. The roof is gable-ended. The interior was not available for inspection at the time of this survey.

Local climate

Rosechurch Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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