Rose Cottage Rose Cottage And No 2 Rose Cottage And Including The Adjoining Outbuilding

Rose Cottage and No. 2 Rose Cottage, together with an adjoining outbuilding, are a pair of cottages (now combined into a single house) dating to the late 18th or early 19th century. They are located near Crowan, in Cornwall.

The cottages were originally built as a pair, with single-cell plans, front entrances centrally positioned, and a small lobby and straight flight of stairs behind each entrance. Shortly after construction, a single-storey building was added to the left-hand end, now forming two small rooms. A small, single-storey outbuilding was subsequently added adjoining the front right-hand corner, likely at the same time the original cottages were extended to the rear with a shallow outshut for a back kitchen and a small chamber above. The right-hand gable end has been rebuilt at first-floor level at some point.

The original two-window section is two storeys high. Originally symmetrical, with two doorways in the centre, the right-hand doorway is now blocked. A lean-to porch is present; it is a small conservatory on the left and open on the right. The front door has flush-beaded bottom panels and fielded round-headed top panels. The ground floor has four-pane horned sashes, while the first floor has approximately early 19th-century 16-pane sashes. The single-storey cottage to the left has a doorway towards the left and 20th-century windows in probably enlarged openings. The outbuilding has a small 19th-century 12-pane casement window at the front and a doorway at the left-hand gable end.

The interior of the original part features a large fireplace or chimney breast in each room, and original bowtell molded ceiling beams at the front. The original roof structures are present but not visible. This is an early example of a pair of cottages, likely for miners, and has remained substantially unaltered since the 19th century.