Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1954. A Early C18 Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Rose Cottage

WRENN ID
rusted-cinder-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 January 1954
Type
Cottage
Address
Rose Cottage, High Street, West Wycombe, HP14 3AG
OS grid reference
SU 828 946
Coordinates
51.64474, -0.80413
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rose Cottage is an early 18th-century building located on the north side of the High Street in West Wycombe. It is constructed of flint rubble with red brick quoins and dressings, and has an old tiled roof. The cottage is single-storey with an attic, and has three casement windows. There are two gabled dormers, formerly one, with glazing bars to all windows. Rose Cottage is part of a group that includes Nos 35 to 37 (consec), The Church Loft, Nos 45 to 54 (consec), Nos 56 to 59 (consec), Steps House, The Plough Inn, The Apple Orchard, The Old Smithy, West Wycombe Estate Office, Rose Cottage and Ness Cottage.

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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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