The Homestead and Roseland Cottage

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RICKINGHALL SUPERIOR THE STREET (SOUTH EAST SIDE) The Homestead and Roseland Cottage

(Formerly listed as The Homestead)

29.7.55

GV II

House. Mid to late C17, altered and extended early to mid C18, altered mid C19 and early C20. Red brick with some timber framing, all colourwashed and rendered. Plaintiled roof with pantiles to rear and on additions. Three cell plan with end stacks, service additions to rear right to form an L on plan. Two storeys and attic. Ground floor: entrance to left of centre, a 6 panelled door with panelled reveals in a C20 gabled porch, three large architraved transomed three-light part opening casements. First floor three architraved part opening cross casements. Plat band, eaves cornice. Three gabled two-light dormers. Internal end stacks. Moulded kneelers to tumbled-in gable end parapets, right end plat band. Slightly projecting to rear right a square two storey C18 service block with a hipped roof, a panelled door with a gauged brick round arched head to a through passage, dentilled eaves; beyond is two bay one storey kitchen with C20 casements, dentilled eaves and a C19 external stack with offsets, rear gable end moulded kneelers to tumbled-in parapet. Main range to rear has C19 lean-to additions with a part glazed six panelled door with a bracketed hood, to right a six-light leaded bow window, first floor sashes, a C17 external stack now truncated.

Interior: to right a secondary small one parlour with some early C18 raised panelling with a cyma cornice, first floor appears to have had eight window openings to front, reset early C18 raised panelling to passage, double staggered tenoned purlin roof. Attached to left end a one storey two bay early C20 surgery links to a lean-to outshut to far left which projects forward and which contains fragments of a C16 timber frame.

Listing NGR: TM0460375634