1-2, Red Rose Close

Nos. 1 and 2, Red Rose Close are two houses located in Kencot. No. 1 is dated 165? on a tablet in the gable end facing the road, while No. 2 is an early 19th-century building, constructed as a pair of cottages. The houses are built from coursed rubble limestone and feature stone slate roofs with moulded gable copings.

No. 1 consists of two storeys and an attic, with three bays, each bay having a cross gable to the south topped with small ball finials. The south front has hollow-chamfered stone mullion windows with Tudor hoodmoulds, which have been renewed on the ground floor. Most windows are three-light, although the first floor of the right bay and the attic have two-light windows. The ground floor of the centre bay has been altered in the 20th century, featuring two single lights in a matching style, with one sharing a stepped dripmould with a half-glazed door. There is a chimney with a brick shaft between the right bays, and another chimney shaft has been rebuilt in concrete blocks on the left gable end. The gable end has a 20th-century two-light ground floor window in a matching 17th-century style. The rear of the house has two old two-light windows of the same type, a single stair light between the left bays, other 20th-century casements, and a boarded door. The interior includes chamfered spine beams and altered fireplaces.

No. 2 also has two storeys and an attic, consisting of two bays. The south front features 20th-century paired barred wooden casements with flat arches of dressed stone, and the attic windows are in gabled eaves-line dormers. There is a boarded door in the centre and a blocked door to the left, both with flat arches. Additionally, there is a later lean-to structure on the right gable.