Rosemary Cottage, Hillcrest Cottage and Kent Cottage

This is a row of three cottages with a shop, dating to the late 16th or early 17th century. There was likely an addition in the 18th century, and alterations in the 19th century. The cottages are timber framed. Two cottages to the left of the central stack have rendered (plastered) walls with painted brick towards the base. The ground floor to the right of the stack is rendered, the first floor is tile-hung (covered in tiles) under the stack, and the gable of the wing is close-studded (with closely spaced vertical timbers). The roof is tiled.

The main range of the cottages is two and a half storeys, with an attic. A wing projects to the right. The wing is two storeys and an attic, with a higher, jettied (overhanging) midrail and eaves, and a higher ridge line. The main range is gabled (with a triangular pediment) to the left, and the wing is gabled to the front. A brick stack, incorporating both red and grey bricks, is partly within the roof’s slope, situated between the main range and the wing. There is a small hipped dormer (a roofed projection) with a two-light casement window to the left, an eaves dormer with a twelve-pane sash window towards the centre, and a two-light casement window to the gable of the wing. The fenestration (window arrangement) is irregular. There is a four-light casement window to Rosemary Cottage, and a 19th-century canted three-light oriel (a projecting bay) window to the first floor of the wing. A boarded (planked) door leading to Rosemary Cottage is situated up two steps under a pentice (a projecting roof) at the left end. There are boarded stable doors to the left of the centre and a boarded door to the right of the centre, both also up two steps. There is a half-glazed door up one step to Kent Cottage at the right end of the wing. A short rear wing projects to the left.

The interior was only partially inspected. Exposed timber framing and a brick inglenook fireplace with a chamfered bressumer (a beam across a fireplace) were noted on the ground floor of the wing.