Rose And Crown Cottage

Rose and Crown Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 17th century and later. Originally a public house until 1917, it is constructed of timber frame, plastered and lined to resemble ashlar, with some areas of dark weatherboarding and stuccoed brick. The roof is steeply pitched, covered in old red tiles, with a red tile hung gable.

The house is arranged in an "L" shape, comprising a long, three-bay, 1 1/2-storey north crosswing, a shorter, higher, two-storey hall range of a single bay, and a two-bay south service wing of unequal size. An entry lobby leads into the service wing, likely originally a cross-passage behind the hall fireplace. A staircase is situated in a rear outshut behind a chimney. A later inserted service wing chimney and fireplace obstructs what was originally a passage, backing onto an older chimney stack.

The east front is irregular. To the left, two linked three-light casement windows are positioned above a gabled tiled open porch leading to a plank front door. The central part, two stories high, features a projecting stuccoed plinth and a three-light casement window above twin six-pane flush sash windows in the hall. A two-light window is found in the gable of the lower west crosswing, and a three-light casement is off-centre on the ground floor. A lean-to, 19th century painted brick beer store extends from the north side, covered by a catslide tiled roof. A 20th century side wall chimney replaces a diagonal fireplace on the north wing and the chimney at the northeast corner.

Inside, the wing has chamfered cross-beams with ogee stops, and a chamfered and stopped timber lintel over the open fire in the hall. The wing's roof is a clasped purlin roof, with collar trusses cut through as if a floor was inserted in the 17th century, when the hall range was presumably rebuilt. The roof features straight braces to cambered tie-beams and straight wind braces to single purlins on each slope. The rear of the wing was formerly a floored stable and remains weatherboarded, as is one remaining bay of an outbuilding that formerly enclosed a yard to the west of the house.