Rose Bower is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Rose Bower
- WRENN ID
- quartered-rotunda-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1969
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rose Bower, Buddle Hill, Selworthy, Somerset, TA24 8TJ
- OS grid reference
- SS 912 463
- Coordinates
- 51.2057, -3.55753
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Bower is a pair of semi-detached cottages, likely built in the 18th century and altered in the mid-19th century. The cottages are roughcast over rubble with a half-hipped thatched roof. There is an inserted stack rising from the eaves on the right, and a central brick stack that has been rebuilt on the remains of an earlier stack. Additionally, there are two diagonally set brick stacks on the left gable end, resting on an earlier external stack.
The plan consists of two cells and a cross passage, with an outshot at the rear. The cottages are one and a half storeys high and have four bays. The first floor features two-light leaded iron casements, while the ground floor has ogee-headed lights, with two-light windows in the outer bays and a three-light window in the inner bay. There is a small buttress flanking the windows, and a gabled scallop-tiled porch between the windows with semicircular-headed openings. The right return has a stack rising from a triple Roman tiled pentice above a three-light ogee-headed oriel, along with a first-floor oriel in the outshut at the back.
Local climate
Rose Bower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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