Rose Cottage

Rose Cottage is a house, originally dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made around the 18th century. The exterior is whitewashed and constructed of irregular English garden wall bricks. It has a steeply pitched plain tile roof with brick coped gable ends. A porch is situated on the main south front, and a small gable end stack is present. The building originally comprised two rooms, both heated by a back-to-back fireplace within a central axial stack. It seems the original structure was likely a two-storey building without internal divisions, and around the 18th century it was converted into a pair of cottages, with the central stack being inserted and small service rooms partitioned off at the rear corners. Only the left service room remains. In the 20th century, it was converted back into a single dwelling, and an outbuilding was added to the right (east) end.

The south front is asymmetrical, with three window bays. It features 2 and 4-light casements with leaded panes, along with doorways to the left and right, each with a 20th-century glazed door. A glazed conservatory is on the left, and a 20th-century open porch is on the right. Various 20th-century casements are present at the rear, along with raking brick buttresses at the centre. A single-story lean-to outshut extends from the right (east) end.

Inside, the right-hand room has large chamfered cross-beams with run-out cyma stops at the south end, exposed unchamfered joists, and a large fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel without stop. The left-hand room also has a chamfered cross-beam with cyma stops at the north end, exposed joists, and a large fireplace with a chamfered lintel incorporating cyma stops at one end. The fireplace lintels are likely reused floor beams. Additional 18th-century joinery includes panel doors and a staircase balustrade with moulded rails. The original roof structure consists of heavy timbers, including two cambered tie-beam trusses with queen struts and collars mortice and tenoned to the principals and with two tiers of purloin halves on the backs of principals.