The Old Rose And Crown

The Old Rose and Crown is a house dating from the mid-16th century, with a rear wing added around 1600. It is a timber-framed building, with roughcast rendering on the front, decorated with patterned plasterwork in raised relief between the upper windows. The steeply pitched roof is now slate-covered. The house’s L-shaped plan is formed from a three-unit, cross-passage house with a continuous jetty on the east side. A lower rear kitchen wing was built at the parlour end of the original house. Originally, service rooms at the north end were divided axially. The timber-framed central chimney appears to have been narrower in the 17th century than the later brick chimney. A large external chimney with crow-step decoration and later conjoined hexagonal shafts serves the parlour and its chamber above, at the south end. The rear wing contains a stair, kitchen, and a gable smoke-bay, now with a later brick chimney. The two-storey front has four windows, with small 3-light and 2-light 19th-century casement windows in flush frames, fitted with small panes of glass. Large, flat brackets support the jetty. A central chimney rises from the rear ridge. A four-panel door is topped by a fanlight.