39, Rose Street

39 Rose Street is a Grade II* listed merchant's house, now used as a residence. It dates from the late 15th century and underwent refurbishment and extensions in 1958 and 1985. The building is timber-framed with sections of brick infill and wattle and daub, topped by an old tiled gabled roof. It has an L-plan layout consisting of three framed bays, with extensions at the rear. The eastern bay originally contained a cross passage, while the western bay features a high ceiling and provided access to a rear yard. The house is jettied at the front and stands two storeys tall, with a tall chimney on the rear wall.

The front facade displays exposed timber framing with brick herringbone infill in the central section of close studding on the ground floor, while the sides have been underbuilt in brick. The jettied first floor is finished with painted daub and render, featuring tension braces, a moulded bressumer, and a moulded string at cill level. The windows are 20th-century leaded casements, including two four-light windows behind diamond mullions on the first floor and a four-light gabled dormer on the right. On the ground floor, there is a four-light window on the left, a square four-light oriel window on heavy carved brackets, and a tall three-light mullioned and transomed window on the right. The entrance door, located to the left of the oriel window, is planked and set in a square opening with a moulded frame and hollow chamfered adjoining posts.

Inside, the building showcases a fine quality exposed frame with all carpenters' marks in the correct sequence. It features heavy plain joists and beams with chamfers and stepped stops. There is an old diamond mullioned window opening on the former external south wall in the middle bay, complete with vertical shutter grooves, and a similar window on the first floor in the same position, as well as in the east gable. Evidence of a larger shuttered shop window can be found in the east bay at the front. The complete frame is exposed on the first floor, featuring a queen strut roof, clasped purlins, and broad rafters with holes facing west at the feet of each; there are double holes in the penultimate rafters at the east end.