Rose Cottage

TQ 59 NW STAPLEFORD ABBOTTB STAPLEFORD ROAD 3/13 Rose Cottage II

House, late C16, altered in C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered with some exposed framing, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays aligned approx. E-W, comprising 2-bay open hall with storeyed parlour/solar end at E. Axial chimney stack at W end, possibky original, brickwork much renewed in C20. Chimney stack at SE comer. Lean-to extension to N of W end, forming catslide roof, C18. Single-storey extension with flat roof to N of E end, C20. Lean-to extension at E end, C20. Single-storey with attics. S elevation, all windows C20 including 2 gabled dormers. Exposed framing, mostly not original, but girt supporting joinsts of solar floor is present, raised approx. 25cm above its original position. Framing partly exposed internally. Heavy studding in partition between hall and parlour, original doorway at S end blocked, another made at N end. Axial beam over parlour, plain-chamfered with step stops. Inserted floor in hall, with axial beam of softwood plain-chamfered with die- away stops, joists plastered to soffits, C18. Jowled posts, straight braces inside studs, not trenched. Edge-halved and bridled scarf in N wallplate. N wall has been raised approx. 1 metre above original wallplate, probably when N lean-to extension was constructed, producing a roof with shallower pitch in N slope than in S.

Listing NGR: TQ5028195363