Climbing roses

[Small pumpkin]

How close to the ground can I cut back a climbing rose? It's fallen away from its support and just flopping around on the ground. It's about 14ft long and about 3ft wide so I would really like to butcher it before attempting to re attach it to the wall.
It's probably the wrong time of year to butcher roses but it's at a holiday cottage so it can't stay where it is until the time is right for pruning. So how brutal can I be? Can I take it back to 2-3ft ?

[Containergardener]

When I've read before about pruning mine, they tend to say 2/3 of the plant but concentrate first on older growth first and any diseased, leave and new growth as much as possible and 1/3 off other stems.
If you take it back too much you may halt flowers for next yr.
Not sure if is helps.

[Scarlet]

Ive got a climbing rose, that too was a similar size to yours last year and it "fell" off its arch . I cut it back to about 3ft and some thicker branches I cut right back to ground. It's looking happy, with about 5 stems reshooting. I think if it's well established go for it

[Small pumpkin]

Thanks I will go sharpen my weapons.

[bend1pa]

It's going to take a few years to regrow back to anything like its former size. Why not just saw out any really old thick woody stems from the base, and with the help of 1 or 2 others, re-attach the remainder, stem by stem, back to its support.

[Small pumpkin]

It's going to take a few years to regrow back to anything like its former size. Why not just saw out any really old thick woody stems from the base, and with the help of 1 or 2 others, re-attach the remainder, stem by stem, back to its support.

To late already butchered . I know it's going to take a long time to come back but that's not a problem. Finding 2 or 3 people to help would of been a problem ( no one wants to work with roses they bite).

[nick the grief]

give it a good feed as the leaved will provide a lot of the nutrients and you've just cut a good chunk of that off.