Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1970. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-wattle-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Wellingborough and Rushden MP: Gen Kitchen (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1970
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Rose Cottage, 17, Sheep Street, Wellingborough, NN8 1BL
- OS grid reference
- SP 893 676
- Coordinates
- 52.30011, -0.69167
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a house, now functioning as both a residence and a shop, believed to date from around 1603 and remodeled in the mid 18th century. The building is constructed of squared coursed and regular coursed ironstone, topped with a slate roof, and features an L-shaped plan. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has a main front that includes a three-window range of 19th-century sashes set in 18th-century openings, all under wooden lintels. The central entrance features a five-panelled door with a reeded and panelled wood surround and reveals, topped by a fanlight. A moulded stone cornice adds to the architectural detail, along with ashlar gable parapets and kneelers. The roof is adorned with a pair of dormers featuring pediments, and there are brick stacks at each end. The rear of the building has 19th-century brick extensions, while the left gable was rebuilt in brick in the mid-20th century. Inside, the ground-floor rooms have panelled window reveals.
Local climate
Rose Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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