Rose Villa

Rose Villa is a house built around 1840 by Smith for himself. It features coursed squared sandstone with an ashlar plinth and dressings, topped by a graduated Lakeland slate roof. The building has one storey and a basement, with three wide bays arranged in a U-plan. The central half-glazed door is set in a plain stone surround, while the projecting outer bays have canted bay windows with stone mullions and late 19th-century sashes. Each projection is accented by corner pilasters, and there is a recessed basement door to the right of the left canted bay. The central bay is filled by a conservatory added around 1900. The low-pitched hipped roof features wide eaves supported by decorative wood brackets and long hips over the canted bays, with corniced ashlar chimneys grouped in threes along the ridges. In front, there is a curved flight of steps in three stages, with renewed flanking walls that are not of interest.