The Roses

The Roses is a villa dating from around 1850. It is constructed of red brick, stuccoed and lined to resemble ashlar, with a rear wing of exposed red brick. The chimney stacks have been rebuilt and the roof is covered in Welsh slate. The house is two storeys high, with a three-bay front, arranged around a central hallway plan. A Greek Doric porch is set in antis, featuring double doors with arched upper lights and internal shutters set in a glazed timber screen. The screen has narrow pilasters and rectangular fanlights. The ground floor windows are tripartite sashes with margin glazing, set within eared moulded architraves and corniced hoods. A band runs along the first floor sill line. The first-floor sashes also have margin glazing in eared moulded architraves. A striking window of three round-arched lights, with pilaster jambs, sits above the porch, with the central light containing a sash door leading to the porch roof. The side elevations each have three bays, with sashes and margin glazing in moulded architraves, flanked by blind panels in moulded architraves to the central bay, while the first floor has round-arched windows. The rear elevation features a half-glazed door with a fanlight over a round-arched sash window with margin glazing and moulded architrave, leading to the stair. Two further sashes are present in architraves to the left. The rear wing comprises four bays, with a door and fanlight to the angle, and twelve-pane sashes under cambered, gauged brick arches. The wing has overhanging eaves, supported by paired brackets.

The interior features a staircase with turned balusters, a ramped and wreathed mahogany handrail with columbine carving to the base and running dog detail to the tread ends. The hall ceiling has a plaster rose and cornice. A room to the left of the entrance features a marble fireplace with console brackets, an egg-and-dart cornice, and a ceiling frieze with roundels. The reveals are fully panelled with shutters and have carved gilt-wood pelmets. The room to the right has a black marble fireplace with a cast iron grate, a moulded cornice, panelled shutters, a timber curtain pole and a moulded pelmet. A room to the rear right has a white marble fireplace with a cast iron grate. The rear wing’s middle room has a painted stone fireplace and shutters, while the end room also contains a painted stone fireplace, a pump, and a stone sink. First-floor front right and front left rooms both have marble fireplaces flanked by closets. Other bedrooms have painted stone fireplaces. All internal doors are original four-panelled doors. The rear wing includes butler's pantries, a servants' hall, and a back kitchen-scullery. These rooms feature ranges in large fireplaces, the scullery containing a pump and sink. The house is notable for its exceptionally complete and unaltered state of preservation, reflecting group value.