Rosebrook

Rosebrook is a house dating back to around 1500, with alterations in the 17th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed, with some parts rendered and weatherboarded, and has a peg-tiled roof. The house is arranged in an L-shape, but a wing to the southeast is a 20th-century addition and is not included in the listing.

The southwest-facing front elevation has a jettied, gabled facade. The roof extends down as a catslide on the northwest side, covering the ground floor out-shut. The jetty is rendered, and the ground floor has a central 20th-century three-light casement window and a weatherboarded out-shut with a two-light casement window. The first floor showcases exposed close-studded framing with tension bracing, and a two-light casement window. A tie-beam features cyma, return, hollow chamfer moulding, which was once part of an oriel window, with mortice holes for the original window head and supporting brackets still visible. The southeast elevation has rendered ground floor with two three-light mullioned windows with original frames and repaired mullions. The first floor has close-studded framing, tension braces, and two three-light mullioned windows, one original and one inserted. A 17th-century stack stands on the northeast end of the roof ridge. The northwest elevation has a continuous catslide roof, with a stack to the east end, weatherboarded ground floor, and two 20th-century three-light casement windows. A 20th-century door is located to the west of the center, with upper glazing bars arranged in a 3x3 pane pattern, and a lower flush-boarded panel.

The interior retains a medieval block, originally a two-bay "high" end cross-wing to a hall, which was once to the northwest. The ground floor has two “high” end access doors on the northwest side, featuring depressed four-centred arches with hollow chamfered jambs. These jambs display mortices for bench draught screens. A stair trap is located adjacent to the hall doorway in the rear bay. Visible marks from candles or rush lights are present on a central post. A 17th-century extension is visible with primary braced studding, elm binding joists with lambs tongue chamfer stops, and a ceiling joist clamp on the exterior face of the original block for the extension. A restored 17th-century fireplace is on the northeast end. The out-shut has been considerably restored, but late 17th- or early 18th-century framing was used to enclose the stack. The first floor retains the original crown post roof, with heavy square section, chamfered corners with broach stops, and two-way braced rafters. A shutter groove is present for the front window and an original side window also remains. The front corner posts are un-jowled, and exterior tension bracing is found at the rear and on the northwest wall (under the later catslide roof). Simple triangular stops are on the central tie-beam and the bridging joist below The rear, 17th-century bay has its northwest plate joined to the original plate with a halved and bridled scarf with a central face peg, suggesting an early 17th-century date for the addition. The upper framing of the cross-wing on the original hall side shows no sooting, indicating that the hall was heated by an enclosed fire from its beginning, suggesting a high status for the dwelling. Rosebrook is historically linked with Woodlands (also listed separately) as a group.