Rose Hill

Rose Hill is a late 19th-century building located on Birkby Hall Road. It is noted for its east rooms, which were redecorated in 1909 by the Manchester architects Edgar Wood and J Henry Sellers. The most visible external feature is the long canted bay on the east front, which has a parapet and a unique moulded pattern. The flush mullions and transoms are square in section and feature a slightly raised fillet in the distinctive Wood/Sellers style. Another ground floor window on the east front also has mullions and transoms with the same shaped fillet.

Inside, many rooms exhibit elaborate late 19th-century Jacobethan joinery. The rooms designed by Wood and Sellers are located in the north-east and south-east corners. The north-east room features a diagonally panelled plaster ceiling with an unusual design and walnut wainscoting inlaid with other woods, showcasing high-quality craftsmanship, particularly over the chimney-piece, which has a geometrically patterned cornice. The fireplace is made of brilliantly coloured veined marble arranged in rectilinear patterns.

The south-east room has a panelled plaster ceiling with a rectilinear design, and corner cupboards in each of the four corners, each topped with a semi-circular recess that creates a segmental dip at the top of each cupboard. There is a low lobby between the two rooms, wainscotted with a plaster domical vault above. The bedroom above features fine joinery, including oak cupboards inlaid with walnut and sycamore in rectilinear patterns, and a pink marble fireplace. The joinery, executed by Taylor and Hobson of Huddersfield, along with the remaining furniture, marble chimneypieces, and plaster ceilings, make these interiors among the most innovative in Europe for their time, comparable to the Kartner Bar in Vienna and the Palais Stoclet in Brussels.