Rose Cottage

Rose Cottage is a farmhouse, now a house, likely built in the early 17th century, with alterations and extensions made in the 18th century and further modifications thereafter. Originally timber-framed, it is now mostly covered in coursed sandstone rubble, topped with a stone slate roof and featuring brick chimneys. The building has a two-unit baffle-entry plan with an additional unit at the right-hand end and a continuous single-storey rear outshut under a catslide roof. It stands two low storeys high and has three windows.

On the ground floor, there is a doorway aligned with the chimney stack at the junction of the second and third bays, with a vertical joint to the right. To the left of the doorway are two 3-light sliding sash windows, and to the right is a 2-light small-paned sliding sash window, all set beneath large rectangular lintels with simple hoodmoulds. The first floor features three 3-light casement windows just below the eaves. There is an axial chimney behind the ridge and a gable chimney on the left side.

The left gable wall displays exposed timber-framing, including a sill, jowelled corner posts, two intermediate posts of light scantling, one rail, angle-braces supporting a slightly cambered tie-beam (which is slightly jettied), and a kingpost roof truss with five pairs of raked struts. The single-storey rear outshut includes, among other features, one 3-light sliding sash window. Inside, there is an inglenook with a chamfered bressummer and a quarter-round moulded lateral beam with vacant mortices for braces to wall-posts, which are now concealed. The first floor was not inspected.