Rose Dodd St Albans

Rose Dodd is a burgage home with shops, featuring a front dating from around 1863 that incorporates elements from 16th and 17th century buildings. The structure is built of ashlar and has a low pitched slate roof that is concealed by a blocking course. It stands three storeys tall, with a cornice and bedmould over the ground floor, a hand over the first floor, and another cornice and bedmould over the second floor. There are three pilasters on the first and second floors, supported by engaged Doric columns, with the cornices and other details uniting around them.

The windows are irregularly spaced, with four wide-spaced sashes and three close-spaced sashes, all featuring single vertical glazing bars in segmental heads set within raised flat surrounds with keys. At the rear, there is a good quality 17th century wing that is two storeys high with attics. This wing includes a three-light mullioned window on the first floor and a five-light window on the ground floor, both with drips and hollow chamfer mouldings. To the right, there is a square-headed moulded door.

A gabled stair turret is positioned at right angles to the main building, containing a newel stair made of stone to the cellar and wood above, featuring splat balusters and a turned newel at the head. One of the standout features of the interior is a fine baroque fireplace on the first floor, which includes side scrolls, split Ionic columns adorned with loops of drapery, and a segmental pediment with a cornice that extends to each side, culminating in a broken centre over a moulded panel.