Rose Cottage

Rose Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries. It has a timber frame that is plastered, with some exposed framing, and is roofed with handmade red clay tiles. The building consists of three bays arranged approximately east to west, featuring a two-bay open hall with a storeyed parlour or solar at the eastern end. There is an axial chimney stack at the western end, which may be original, although the brickwork has been largely renewed in the 20th century. Additionally, there is a chimney stack at the southeast corner.

On the northern side of the western end, there is a lean-to extension that creates a catslide roof, dating from the 18th century. A single-storey flat-roofed extension to the north of the eastern end was added in the 20th century, along with another lean-to extension at the eastern end, also from the 20th century. The cottage is a single-storey building with attics, and the southern elevation features all 20th-century windows, including two gabled dormers.

The exposed framing is mostly not original, but the girt supporting the joists of the solar floor is present, raised about 25 centimeters above its original position. Some framing is partly exposed internally. The partition between the hall and parlour has heavy studding, with the original doorway at the southern end blocked and a new doorway created at the northern end. There is an axial beam over the parlour that is plain-chamfered with step stops. The hall has an inserted floor with an axial beam of softwood that is plain-chamfered with die-away stops, and the joists are plastered to the soffits, dating from the 18th century. The posts are jowled, and there are straight braces inside the studs that are not trenched. The northern wallplate features an edge-halved and bridled scarf joint. The northern wall has been raised approximately one meter above the original wallplate, likely when the northern lean-to extension was built, resulting in a shallower pitch on the northern slope of the roof compared to the southern slope.