Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. A C18 Cottage.

Rose Cottage

WRENN ID
still-moulding-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1960
Type
Cottage
Address
Rose Cottage, High Bickington
OS grid reference
SS 600 204
Coordinates
50.96635, -3.99492
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rose Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the early 18th century, with a possible addition from the late 18th or early 19th century. The building is rendered, probably over cob, and features a wheatstraw thatched roof that is half-hipped to the left. It has brick stacks at the ends. The rear wing is made of rendered cob on a stone rubble plinth and has a gable-ended pantiled roof.

The cottage has a two-room central-entrance plan that faces north, with end stacks that are integral to the left and axial. The late 18th century wing projects at the rear of the left-hand end. The building is two storeys high, with a one-storey wing.

The exterior is symmetrical with a two-window front, featuring 19th century small-paned two-light wooden casements with stone cills. There is a roughly central doorway that has a late 19th century plank door framed with beaded wood. A central two-light wooden casement window from the 19th century is located on the first floor at the rear. The interior has not been inspected. This cottage is situated next to The Cottage on an island site at the south end of the village.

Local climate

Rose Cottage receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% 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 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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