Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twisted-cloister-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rose Cottage, Lympsham, BS24 0HT
- OS grid reference
- ST 345 544
- Coordinates
- 51.28578, -2.94006
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a late 18th-century cottage located in Lympsham. The building is constructed of painted brick with a pantile roof, featuring a single brick end stack and coped verges. It is two storeys high and has two bays. The upper floor has two-light casement windows, while the ground floor has three-light casement windows. A central door opening is present, with a plank door and a C19 glazed porch. Rose Cottage is a modest but substantially unaltered example of the local vernacular style.
Local climate
Rose Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 10 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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