Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1982. A C18 House. 3 related planning applications.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- turning-corbel-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rose Cottage, Penn Street, HP7 0PY
- OS grid reference
- SU 924 960
- Coordinates
- 51.65559, -0.66565
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is an 18th-century red-brick house situated on the east side of Penn Street. It is a two-storey, two-bay building with a hipped roof covered in old tiles. The windows are barred box sashes, and the ground floor windows are set within cambered arches constructed of red and grey brick. A 19th-century trellis porch shelters the central front door. Brick stacks are present on each side of the building, with the right-hand stack featuring tiled weatherings.
Local climate
Rose Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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