Plague Cottage and Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1967. House and attached cottage.

Plague Cottage and Rose Cottage

WRENN ID
bitter-transept-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 July 1967
Type
House and attached cottage
Address
Plague Cottage and Rose Cottage, Church Street, Eyam, Derbyshire Dales
OS grid reference
SK 217 764
Coordinates
53.2843, -1.6758
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Plague Cottage and Rose Cottage are a house and an attached cottage dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries. They are constructed of coursed gritstone rubble, featuring gritstone dressings and quoins on the west side of Rose Cottage. The roofs are made of stone slate, with stone gable end stacks and a stone ridge stack on Rose Cottage. The west gable of Rose Cottage has a stone coped gable with a moulded kneeler. The buildings are two storeys high, with Plague Cottage being a single bay and Rose Cottage having three bays. Rose Cottage features a flush doorcase with a panelled door, and to the east, there is a horizontal sliding sash window in a flush surround, which was formerly a mullioned window. There are two similar windows to the west of the door and three similar windows above. Plague Cottage has similar windows above and below, along with a flush doorcase and a 20th-century door to the east. The cottages have a historical association with the Eyam plague of 1666.

Local climate

Plague Cottage and Rose Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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