Rosemary Cottage

Rosemary Cottage is a lobby-entrance house dating to the late 16th century, which was altered and extended in the early 19th century to create three cottages. The building is timber-framed, rendered with plaster, and has a thatched roof. The original core of the house consists of number 2 and the northeastern bay of number 3, originally a three-bay lobby-entrance house with a single-hearth chimney stack at the northeast end of the middle bay. It was extended at both ends in the early 19th century, and number 2 was subsequently divided into three cottages. There are external chimney stacks at both gables, dating to the 19th century. A lean-to extension exists at the northeast end, also from the 19th century, and a single-storey rear extension to number 2 was added in the 20th century, with further 19th-century lean-tos to the other cottages. The building is single-storey with attics. Number 1 has four late 19th-century casement windows and a plain door. Number 2 has four 20th-century casement windows; the upper northeast window is in an eyebrow dormer and is higher than the other upper windows, and a plain door. Number 3 features four 20th-century casement windows and a door with two glazed panels. Internal timber framing is visible within number 2, showing a curved tension brace trenched to the inside of studs, jowled storey posts, an edge-halved and bridled scarf in the wallplate, and longitudinally arranged square-sectioned, unchamfered joists. The hearth is faced with modern brickwork. The roof space is not accessible. Three historical photographs in the National Monuments Record show the cottages from oblique angles, largely unchanged, with the exception of replacement windows and a former lean-to extension projecting forward from the northeast end of number 1.