Butter Hill House Rose Hill House

ROSE HILL 1. 1049 No 25 (Butter Hill House). No 26 (Rose Hill House). TQ 1649 SW 4/28 28.11.51.

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1. 2 large houses, each of 2 parallel ranges, forming almost a small terrace. C18 fronts, but Rose Hill House at least is a C17 building encased in an C18 shell but with 2 brick chimney breasts on the north-east wall and between them a casement window of 2 tiers of 3 lights with brick mullions and transom. The front of both houses is stuccoed, the back red brick. 3 storeys. 7 windows. Stringcourses above ground and 1st floors. Modillion cornice and parapet. Glazing bars intact. 2 large symmetrical 5-sided bays on the ground and 1st floors which have probably been added later. Each has 6 narrow windows and a modillion cornice over. Doorways with engaged Doric columns, pediments, and semi-circular fanlights. At the south-west end of Butter Hill House is a red brick addition of 2 storeys and 2 windows, and at the north-east end of Rose Hill House a similar addition of 3 windows with a pointed archway over the road and beneath the 3rd window.

Listing NGR: TQ1647849286