Rose Cottage

Rose Cottage is a former farmhouse dating from the first half of the 16th century, with an early 18th-century kitchen addition on the left. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. The older section has a two-cell layout with an end chimney. It stands two storeys tall with an attic and features a 1½-storey addition. The cottage has various casement windows, including three standard mid-20th-century windows on the ground floor and a small-paned two-light window above, with older windows located at the rear. A mid-20th-century six-panel door is positioned in the cross-entry. The original part of the house has external stacks made of narrow brick with axial shafts at each gable end, and there is a small pantiled, colour-washed brick addition on the right gable end.

Inside, the cottage has a three-bay frame with full-height studding, which is papered over in the upper rooms. The upper bay of the hall features a deep sill of a projecting window, while the hall ceiling has heavy plain joists and a bridging beam with broach stop-chamfers. The joists in the right cell are concealed. In the hall chamber, a former open truss has a slightly cambered arch-braced tie beam, and the plain crown-post roof is supported by two-way bracing. The kitchen addition includes primary-braced studding and on-edge oak joists, along with a bread oven and range still in place. Rose Cottage is a very intact small 16th-century house that has not been heavily modernised.