Edgebrook And Rosamond

Edgebrook and Rosamond is a house that has been extended and divided into two cottages. It dates from around 1600, with extensions made in the 18th century. The building is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. It has four bays facing north, with an internal stack located against the rear wall, one bay from the left end. There is a rear wing at the right end featuring a gambrel roof and an end stack, which is from the 18th century. The main house was extended to the left by one bay in the 17th century, and further extended in the 18th century to create a row of cottages.

Edgebrook comprises the right half of the main stack and everything to the right of it, while Rosamond includes the remainder of the original house, the 17th-century extension, and part of the 18th-century row of cottages. The building is one storey with attics. Edgebrook has two 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor, along with two 18th-century three-light windows, each featuring one wrought iron casement and some crown glass in slated swept dormers, and a 20th-century door. Rosamond has two 20th-century casements, one 19th-century two-light window with a wrought iron casement, and two 20th-century casements in slated swept dormers, along with a 20th-century door.

The upper floor of the rear elevation and rear wing features re-sited 17th and 18th-century wrought iron casements in 20th-century frames. The gambrel roof has shortened grouped diagonal shafts on the main stack. Inside, the building has transverse chamfered beams with lamb's-tongue-plus-bar stops, and large wood-burning hearths with chamfered mantel beams and lamb's tongue stops. The 17th-century extension in Rosamond includes a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops. The walls were raised approximately 0.30 meters in the 17th century, and the roof was rebuilt as a gambrel. Edgebrook features a 17th-century three-plank oak door and two 18th-century three-plank pine doors.