Rosewarne Wollas Including Nos. 1 And 2 And Rear Screen Wall

Rosewarne Wollas is a manor house, subsequently a farmhouse, now converted into a house and two cottages. It was built over the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries in various phases and has been altered. The building is constructed mostly from uncoursed granite rubble with granite quoins, part of it slate-hung with squared granite blocks, and has slate roofs including some scantle slates.

The house is arranged as a long single-depth range running north-west to south-east and facing south-west, with a rear wing added in the 18th century and a receding wing at the left end. The building is of 1½ and 2 storeys, with the front facade composed of 3 distinct units. The leftmost unit (and probably the oldest part) is 1½ storeys; the other two units are 2 storeys, with the second unit probably raised and the third remodelled in the later 18th century.

The left-hand 1½-storey range, which appears to have been a hall, has a large external gabled chimney stack offset to the right, with a large square corniced chimney rising from its half-hipped roof. The gabled wall has a large 2-light mullioned window with cavetto mullion and moulded surround at ground floor, offset to the right, and an inserted 12-pane fixed window above. To the right and flush with this wall is a former porch with a blocked doorway (now containing a small inserted window) sheltered under a carried-down roof. The recessed wall to the left of the chimney has very small mullioned windows of 2, 2, and 1 light (the first blocked), and 2 inserted windows above.

The 2-storey range has slate hung on the wall above ground floor level. At its left end is a doorway protected by a simple porch with granite jambs and a hipped roof. To the right of this is a recessed mullioned window of 3+3 lights with cavetto common mullions and a roll-moulded fillet to the king mullion, with two 12-pane sashed windows above that break the eaves. The third unit, separated from the second by a vertical joint, has 3 similar windows on each floor. Chimneys on the ridge appear at the junction between units and at the right-hand gable. The left return wall of the left wing (Nos. 1 and 2 Rosewarne Wollas, formerly known as the Kitchen) has 2 doorways and various altered windows.

The rear elevation of the third unit has a 3-light mullioned window at ground floor and a single-light window above, both with chamfered surrounds and hoodmoulds. The central rear wing features a Venetian stairwindow with a raised keystone and sashes with glazing bars, and a 2-span hipped roof. The first unit has a wide doorway altered as a window and a relocated mullioned window with 2 Tudor-arched lights. The north wing has remains of 2-light mullioned windows. An attached screen wall with a chamfered doorway is present, with a semi-circular projection that may formerly have been the base of a tower.

Interior features include the first unit, which contains opposed square-headed doorways with ovolo and cavetto moulded surrounds, and a large rectangular fireplace with chamfered jambs (the lintel has been renewed). The drawing room in the third unit has fine late 18th-century decoration, including 4 doorways with shouldered architraves under floating cornices, a moulded plaster overmantel with a swan-neck pediment, and rococo ceiling decoration. The rear wing contains an early-to-mid 18th-century open-well staircase with a closed string, square newels, and turned balusters.