The Homestead and Roseland Cottage

This is a house, likely built in the mid to late 17th century, with alterations and extensions in the early to mid 18th century, the mid 19th century, and the early 20th century. The construction is primarily red brick, with some timber framing, and the exterior is colourwashed and rendered. The roof is tiled, with pantiles to the rear and on additions. The house originally comprised three rooms arranged in a row, with service additions to the rear right forming an “L” shape. It has two storeys and an attic.

The front of the house has a central entrance with a 6-panelled door set within a 20th-century gabled porch. To either side are large, architraved windows with three lights, and on the first floor are three architraved cross casements. A plat band runs along the facade, and an eaves cornice is present. There are three gabled dormers in the roof. Internal brick stacks are visible at each end. The right gable end has moulded kneelers on tumbled-in parapets, and a plat band. To the rear right is a projecting, two-storey service block from the 18th century, with a hipped roof and a panelled door with a gauged brick round-arched head leading to a through passage. Beyond this is a single-storey kitchen with 20th-century casements and dentilled eaves, and a 19th-century external brick stack with offsets. The rear of the main house has 19th-century lean-to additions, including a part-glazed six-panelled door with a bracketed hood, a six-light leaded bow window to the right, sash windows on the first floor and a truncated 17th-century external stack.

Inside, to the right of the entrance hall is a small parlour with some early 18th-century raised panelling and a cyma cornice. The first floor originally had eight window openings on the front. Reset early 18th-century raised panelling is visible in the passage, and a double staggered tenoned purlin roof is present. Attached to the left-hand end is a one-storey, two-bay early 20th-century surgery, connected by a lean-to outshut projecting forward, which contains fragments of a 16th-century timber frame.