Rose Hill Farmhouse And Attached Outbuildings

Rose Hill Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse with 19th and 20th-century additions and alterations. It is constructed with a timber frame, rendered infill, and a plain tiled roof. The original building comprises two main cells arranged with a north-south ridge. A single-storey wing extends to the west, running east-west.

The north gable end displays small-framed walls on both the ground and first floors, featuring angle braces to the first floor and jowled corner posts. The gable structure includes uprights, a collar, and queen struts. Ground floor windows are single, two-light casements dating to the 19th century; the first floor has a pair of 20th-century, three-light casements, flanking what appear to be blocked window openings. A projecting 19th-century wing is attached to the left, rendered and featuring a projecting chimney stack. The east side includes a 19th-century brick wing with three-light casements and a single-storey lean-to. A further wing, built in the 19th century, extends the original timber-framed house to the south. This wing has three-light casements on both floors. A single-storey porch sits in the re-entrant angle between the wings, and a jowled corner post of the 17th-century house is visible at first-floor level. The west flank has small framing and a three-light casement, along with a 19th-century lean-to porch. Four gabled, two-light dormers are positioned above. A single-storey range of farm buildings, likely contemporary with the ground-floor lean-to and porch wing, extends to the far left. The south flank of these buildings is blank, while the north face, overlooking the driveway and former farmyard, features 20th-century casements (two and three-light) and two doorways.

The interior dining room and kitchen contain chamfered ceiling beams and joists. The dining room also displays small framing to the wall, with end stops to the axial beam. The projecting east wing abuts the 17th-century farmhouse, exposing the small-framed walling, angle struts, and first-floor jowled posts at the corners of the original two-cell plan and partition wall, which has carpenter's marks. The roof includes replaced common rafters, with a central truss featuring queen struts and brick infill. The former stable block to the north-west, now known as Briar Cottage, is not included in the listing.

Rose Hill Farmhouse is designated a building of group value due to its 17th-century timber frame, the compatibility of later additions, and its location within a group of 16th and 17th-century houses in the centre of Bushley village.