Eastwood And Rose Cottage

Rose Cottage is a 15th-century hall house, later remodelled in the mid to late 16th century, and now used as a house. It is located on Ashbury Chapel Road. The construction is of squared chalk laid over a sarsen base, with a thatched roof and a brick stack. Originally a 4-bay hall house, the insertion of a first floor and chimney stack onto the screens passage around the mid to late 16th century created a 3-unit cross-passage plan, with a 4-window range. There are brick segmental arches over a 20th-century door and casements. The roof is half-hipped. Internally, a mid-16th-century panelled parlour contains chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and joists. The kitchen fireplace, backing onto the cross passage, has a mid-16th-century moulded bressumer and fire beam. The house features 4-bay, raised cruck trusses with plated yoke.

Eastwood, located behind Rose Cottage, dates from the late 16th to early 17th century, with construction of squared chalk over a sarsen and brick base, and a thatched roof and brick stacks. It is a 3-unit plan building that was converted into two cottages in the 18th century, and has a 1 1/2-storey, 4-window range. There are 20th-century casements, one blocked door, and mid to late 18th-century five-light leaded casements to the first floor. The property features an early 19th-century four-panelled door (2 glazed) and a half-hipped roof with a gable stack and a stack adjoining Rose Cottage. Inside, there is a chamfered beam with a scrolled stop, and a 3-bay collar-truss roof with butt purlins. Historical records indicate that in approximately 1777, Thomas Stock was given this cottage by the Craven Estate for use as a Sunday school, purportedly the first in England.