Rosevear Cottage And Adjoining Cider House

Rosevear Cottage and the adjoining cider house are a house and cider house that likely date from the 17th century, with remodeling and extensions in the 18th century, supported by deeds from 1750. The structure features rubble and rendered cob walls, slate sills, and wooden lintels. The roofs are made of grouted scantle slate, with brick chimneys at the gable ends of the steeper central section and a half-hipped end of the lower pitched part on the right, which has an external rubble breast with a tall brick shaft at the right-hand end.

The original layout was probably a three-room through passage plan, consisting of an inner room on the left, a hall, a passage, and a lower end room at the far right. The building was extended at the rear with stair and pantry outshuts around the late 18th to early 19th century, and there is a single-storey cider house with a slight rear projection on the left side. The ground slopes down towards the right and rear.

In the 19th century, the property was used as two houses but has since been converted back into a single dwelling. The cottage is two storeys high, with an overall four-window east front, while the cider house has a symmetrical two-window front with a central wide doorway on the left. The house front consists of two nearly symmetrical two-window sections, with first-floor windows that are closer together and central doorways. The original doorway, which is to the left of the right-hand doorway, is now partly blocked and has a window. The doors are panelled, partly glazed, and there are late 19th-century horned sash windows with four, six, or twelve panes.

Inside, the property features carpentry and joinery from the early 19th century, including two large hearths; the middle one is blocked, while the fireplace in the right-hand room has an oven beside the left-hand jamb. This building is noted as the least altered and probably the oldest house in the hamlet of Rosevear.