Rose'S Shop Smeeton The Woodstove Trading Company

This building is a house and shop row, dating from the early 17th century, with later additions and an early 19th-century front facade. A central rear wing is timber framed with rendered infilling.

The front elevation of the building is divided into red and grey brick in a Flemish bond pattern on the ground floor, with tile hanging on the first floor. It has a plain tile roof. The range fronts High Street, with a long wing extending to the left to Maidstone Road, and a rounded corner. A long, early 17th-century rear wing is positioned centrally, projecting beyond the left wing. A short wing extends at right angles to the center of the central wing on the right side.

The front range is two storeys high. The roof is hipped at the rear of the left wing and rounded at the corner. A brick ridge stack is located towards the left end of the front range. The fenestration is irregular, with six windows. Two twelve-pane sashes are set lower than the others, towards the rear of the left wing, alongside one two-light casement towards the center and another at the corner. The front elevation incorporates one four-pane and one sixteen-pane sash. There are half-glazed doors towards the rear of the left wing (leading to the Woodstove Trading Company), one with a flat bracketed hood towards the center (to No.1), another to the left wing towards the corner (to Rose’s), a six-panel door under the stack, and another to the right end of Smeeton, all with flat bracketed hoods.

The central rear wing has a gabled end, two storeys and a garret. The ground floor is of painted brick and render, while the first floor is close-studded, with a frieze of small square quadrant-braced panels flanking the windows. Larger panels of the same type are present on the gable below the collar, with close-studding above. A moulded midrail or former jetty bressummer is also visible. The gable is jettied on a moulded bressummer supported by shaped brackets. It features moulded bargeboards and a pendant. A brick ridge stack is located towards the center of the wing. There’s a three-light first-floor window, with evidence of a former oriel, and two-light ovolo-moulded mullion frieze windows with diamond subsidiary mullions. The interior has not been inspected.