Rolly Cottage

Rolly Cottage is a farmhouse, later divided into two cottages and now a single house, dating from the 15th century. It was remodelled in the 17th century with later additions and alterations. The house has a timber frame, constructed using cruck technology, with painted brick infill between the timbers and a brick plinth. The roof is part slate. Originally, it was an open-hall house, likely with three cruck-framed bays. In the 17th century, a first floor and stack were inserted, changing the plan to a three-unit baffle-entry configuration. The timber framing features large square and rectangular panels, two from the sill to the wall-plate, with massive truncated true cruck trusses visible in the gable ends. There are timber-framed gabled eaves dormers on both the left and right sides, each with V-struts from the collars. The windows are mostly 20th century casements and fixed lights, with two on the left of a 20th-century gabled porch containing an inner glazed door, positioned immediately to the centre of the building. Three windows are positioned to the right. A 20th-century glazed door is on the right, with a casement window beside it. Further 20th-century casement windows are found in the dormers. A central 19th-century brick ridge stack, made of red brick and with moulded capping, rises from the roof. Interior inspection was not possible during a resurvey in October 1986, but a true cruck truss—said to have an Alcock apex-type B— was noted to the left of the right dormer. The building was historically known as Nos. 1 and 2, Osbaston.