Rosea Cottage, Lilac Cottage, Little Thatch and Cold Knapp is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Cottages.
Rosea Cottage, Lilac Cottage, Little Thatch and Cold Knapp
- WRENN ID
- rusted-jade-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Rosea Cottage, Lilac Cottage, Little Thatch and Cold Knapp, Puddle Town, Haselbury Plucknett
- OS grid reference
- ST 466 108
- Coordinates
- 50.89422, -2.76013
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rosea Cottage, Lilac Cottage, Little Thatch, and Cold Knapp are a row of four cottages with origins dating back to the 18th century or earlier, with some modifications. They are constructed of local stone rubble, with the south gable rendered, and the end cottages are colorwashed. The cottages have thatched roofs, featuring a slight step to the ridge in the center, a plain gable to the south, and a half hip to the north, along with brick chimney stacks.
Rosea and Lilac Cottages, located to the east, are both single-storey with attics. Rosea Cottage has two bays, with a straight joint between the bays. On the ground floor, there are 20th-century plain casement windows under old timber lintels, and a small added light to the left of bay one. Above, set into the roof, are two-light horizontal-bar casements of an early pattern. To the right of bay two is a 20th-century fully-glazed door with a sheet hood supported by wrought-iron brackets. Some roof plates and timbers are exposed.
Lilac Cottage is a single bay, featuring two-light small-pane casements, with the upper set into the thatch above the door, which is located to the left of the lower window. It has a boarded pattern set in a small stone and tiled porch. There is a straight joint between Lilac Cottage and Little Thatch, which has two bays of small-pane casement windows, with two-light above and three-light below. It also has a projecting stone and tiled porch, with a 20th-century boarded door in the lower bay one.
Cold Knapp is a single bay with small-pane casements, featuring two-light above of an older pattern and three-light below. To the right is an older boarded door in a heavy frame, with an open rendered and thatched porch. There are various lean-to extensions at the rear. The interiors have not been seen. White Gates, attached to the south gable of Rosea Cottage, are lit but not of special interest.
Local climate
Rosea Cottage, Lilac Cottage, Little Thatch and Cold Knapp receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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