Rosetree Cottage (Including Part Of Rose Cottage)

Rosetree Cottage, which includes part of Rose Cottage, is a house dating back to the 15th century. A floor was inserted in a later phase, with a stack and parlour bay added in the 17th century, followed by alterations in the 19th century. Further extensions and reroofing occurred in the 20th century. The house has a timber frame with plaster infilling and a thatched roof. Originally a small, two-bay open hall with a separate storeyed service or solar bay, it was later extended to create a three-cell cross passage plan. It is now two storeys high. The entrance is in the cross passage, slightly left of centre. Windows include 2-light and 3-light glazing bar casements, with 19th-century 3-light casements with glazing bars on the ground floor and leaded panes in a moulded frame on the first floor. An axial ridge stack is positioned to the right, between the hall and the parlour. The roof is half-hipped to the left end, featuring a first-floor, 4-light diamond mullioned window. A 20th-century, two-storey wing with a pantile roof is situated at the rear, alongside an earlier pantile lean-to behind the parlour bay. The interior includes chamfered, 4-centred arched door heads at the front of the cross passage and into the storeyed bay. The hall retains a former oriel sill to the front, an inserted stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam and joists, arched braces to the tie beams with a crown post mortice to a formerly open truss, and reverse curved bracing in the storeyed bay. The parlour bay was not inspected.