Rose Cottage

TQ 64 SW PEMBURY HENWOOD GREEN ROAD

5/371 No 130, Rose Cottage

GV II

Small house. Circa 1700, roof replaced after a fire in the mid C19, minor C20 modernisation. Weatherboarded timber frame; brick stack and chimneyshaft; slate roof.

Plan: 2-room plan cottage facing west. Unheated service room at the left (north end) still serves as a pantry but front section now divided off as an entrance lobby. Larger right room, the former living room/kitchen has a right end stack. Kitchen now in probably secondary outshot to rear.

2 storeys with attics in the roofspace and lean-to outshot across the back. Exterior: 3 ground floor windows and 2 first floor windows, all C20 casements without glazing bars. Centre ground floor window is probably blocking the original front doorway. Present doorway in left end containing C20 plank door. Roof is gable-ended and the left gable includes a C19 fixed pane window containing tiny rectangular panes.

Interior: Has plain carpentry detail. Main ground floor room has a roughly chamfered axial beam and similar axial beam full length of first floor. Ground floor has large brick fireplace with plain oak lintel and first floor fireplace is blocked. Roof replaced in C19 with evidence that the cause was a fire.

Listing NGR: TQ6299741242