Rosehill House Hotel

Rosehill House Hotel is a cotton manufacturer's villa, dating from approximately 1856, and subsequently altered. The building is constructed of coursed rock-faced sandstone with freestone dressings, topped by steeply-pitched fishscale slate roofs with blue crested ridge tiles, and exhibits an eclectic Gothic style. The plan is irregular, roughly square in shape.

The exterior is of two storeys and five unequal bays, strongly asymmetrical in design. The first and third bays are gabled, with the third bay projecting. A square, single-storey porch is located to the left of the projecting bay, and to the right is a rectangular bay window at ground floor, with a canted bay above that breaks the eaves. The porch features false gables to the front and side with crocketed finials, a Tudor-arched window with etched plate glass, a shield above, and a large Tudor-arched doorway with an elaborate moulded surround including set-in shafts, carved spandrels, a square hood-mould with figured stops, and a door with trefoil-headed panels. The windows are varied; above the porch is a lancet with a trefoil and a brattished gable, and in the gabled first bay, a two-light mullioned window with an elaborate raised surround and frieze of quatrefoils. The projected gable to the right of the porch has a tall ground-floor window with a raised surround, and above this, a stepped three-light mullioned window with a hood-mould. To the right, there's a one-light sash window at first floor, also with a hood-mould featuring figured stops. The tiered bay windows have columnar mullions with carved foliated caps (each unique). The ground-floor bay has a geometrically-panelled parapet, and the first-floor bay has segmental-pointed lights, richly-carved spandrels, a frieze, and a steep polygonal roof with a wrought-iron finial including remnant portions of a weathervane. The roof is punctuated by three chimney stacks, each with three embattled octagonal chimneys. The north return side, with five bays in similar style and three gables, incorporates two large canted bay windows at ground floor with blind mouchette tracery to the parapets, and two-light mullioned windows at first floor. Most windows are sashed, lacking glazing bars. The south return wall displays a tall, two-centred arched stair window with Y-tracery and stained glass.

The interior features an encaustic-tiled floor in the porch and moulded Tudor arches leading to the reception hall, which was formerly a well with a skylight but now contains a 20th-century ceiling and rooms above. Elaborate moulded plaster cornices and ceilings are found in the main reception rooms on the north side, particularly in the dining room to the southwest corner, which is also panelled. Various marble fireplaces are in these rooms, and the staircase has a closed string with mouchette traceried balustrades.