Arosa

Arosa is a house dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the early 18th century, conversion into two houses in the mid-19th century, and further changes in the 1970s. The building is timber-framed with a clay lump gable wall on the west side, and has a slate roof over the main body, concrete tiles on lean-to outshuts, and a felt flat roof to a rear extension.

The original plan comprised a parlour, hall, and service range, with a central stack. The west service range was removed in the mid-19th century. The south front is two stories high, with a two-window range. The ground floor has two plank doors and three 1970s ovolo-mullioned casement windows, one of two lights and the others of three. Two three-light casements are present on the first floor. A central ridge stack is visible. The rear elevation has a single first-floor window of two lights, a mid-19th century single-storey outshut extended eastwards in the 20th century and raised to two stories at the west end in the 1970s, with two-light casements throughout. The east gable features a mid-19th century lean-to outshut fitted with two Crittall windows.

The interior reveals a timber frame with jowled principal corner studs and close-studded walls. There are rooms to the east and west of the stack. The east room, formerly a parlour, has a rebuilt inglenook fireplace with a chamfered bressumer. A chamfered spine beam rests on a bracket at the east end, exhibiting tongue stops. Joists are supported by triangular plates fixed to mid rails. A staircase is located to the south of the stack, accessed via a plank door. In the west room, a second staircase is found south of the stack, both staircases being 19th-century additions. A plank door is also present. The spine and bridging beams are chamfered; the bridging beam is against the stack, defining the stack bay, the spine beam has tongue stops at the east end. Joists north of the spine beam have fluted edges. The first floor has two rooms west of the stack (partitioned in the 19th century) and one room to the east. The east room contains a chamfered bridging beam, two plank doors to the staircase flights, and a fireplace with a bressumer. The west rooms have a chamfered spine beam running through a partition to meet the stack bay bridging beam, with twin staircase doors.

The roof west of the stack retains one tier of 18th-century taper-tenoned staggered butt purlins and principals, while the east room has one tier of purlins clasped into a single cambered collar. Most other roof timbers have been replaced in the 20th century.