Rose Cottage

Rose Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 17th century, with a parlour wing added or rebuilt in the late 17th or early 18th century. The original section has a timber frame on a clunch sill, with rendered walls and a steeply pitched, plain tiled roof. A late 17th century ridge stack is built of gault brick with a string course. The cottage is two storeys high. One sealed original window opening is visible above what was the service bay, and a three-light window likely occupies the position of the original hall window. The lobby entry doorway has been sealed. A single-storey addition adjoins the west side, with a rebuilt roof. A window set into the road-facing wall has two diamond mullions.

The late 17th or early 18th century parlour wing is timber-framed with rendered walls on a brick sill. The gable end of this wing is narrow brickwork, and the plain tiled roof is hipped where it meets the main range. The gable end has an end parapet on kneelers, and a stack with two linked shafts and projecting capping.

Inside the main section, the two-bay hall has a cambered, chamfered tie beam with arch bracing (now removed). The principal posts have thickened heads and are also thickened at ground floor to carry the bridging joists of the ceiling frame and the middle rail of the wall frame. An inserted staircase and hall bay contains framed partition walls, although the original staircase newels appear to have been replaced. The parlour wing first floor has 18th-century cupboards flanking the hearth.