Rose Cottage

Rose Cottage is a late 16th-century crosswing that has been altered in the 19th century and is now used as a cottage. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof covered with handmade red clay tiles. The building consists of two bays aligned northwest to southeast, forming the parlour or solar crosswing of a hall house that originally extended to the southwest. A 19th-century chimney stack is located at the northwest end, along with a single-storey extension featuring a slate roof and internal chimney stack.

The cottage is two storeys high. On the northeast elevation, there is a half-glazed door and a range of three double-hung sash windows, each with four lights, dating from the late 19th century. The roof is hipped at the northwest end. Inside, the structure features jowled posts and exposed close studding on the upper floor, with curved 'Suffolk' bracing set inside. The beams are plain-chamfered, both axial and transverse, with lamb's tongue stops, and there are unchamfered joists of horizontal section.

Notably, in the upper southeast wall, there are two blocked original windows, each with a single hollow-moulded mullion and small diamond mortices for the stiffening bars of early glazed windows consisting of two leaded panels. In the upper northwest wall, there is a blocked central unglazed window with two diamond mullions still in place, although one jamb has been altered. The roof structure is of clasped purlin construction with curved wind-braces, while the hipped northwest bay has been altered using softwood.

The presence of both original glazed and unglazed windows in the same crosswing is particularly significant, indicating that the house faced southeast. This crosswing was likely built shortly after the expansion of the glass industry in England in the 1570s, a time when glass was primarily used in small areas at the front of the best part of the house rather than at the back. All other architectural features are consistent with this dating.