Rosecare Villa Farmhouse

Rosecare Villa Farmhouse is a farmhouse and outbuilding dating to 1720, with earlier wings and an early 20th-century addition to the left of the main range. The main range was designed for its owner by Mr Stacey, a slate captain. It is constructed of whitewashed rendered cob with a slate roof and rendered brick chimneys to the main range, which is three rooms wide with a rear corridor. The ground floor rooms to the right and centre are heated from one cob stack, with a later stack inserted to heat the ground floor room to the left. Projecting single-storey rear wings, described in 1741 as a large and small kitchen, form a rear courtyard plan. The fourth side of the courtyard is completed by a range of buildings from 1720, featuring a slate roof carried over the courtyard side as a canopy, supported by slim slate uprights. The south front of the main range, now the garden front, is symmetrical, with a hip roof and two storeys and three windows. The rendering is scored to imitate stone. A largely 20th-century glazed verandah retains two cast iron columns from an early 19th-century design. A second entrance, likely from the 19th century, is located in the ground floor room to the left. The windows are 12-pane sashes with shutters. The interior contains good fireplaces and retains most of its slate floors. A saddlery is located at the rear of the ground floor room to the left. A 20th century entrance porch has been inserted into the east end of the corridor. The rear wing to the right has a circa 17th-century slatestone fireplace with a broad fireplace beam. The rear wing to the left has a partially blocked fireplace with a fireplace beam. The rear outbuilding contains a small room at the east end, previously used as an apothecary's shop and as a rent window, and an intact pantry at the west end with slate-topped benches and a table. The north side of the rear outbuilding is ingeniously constructed of bolted slates below overlapping boards. A bolted slate garden wall exists. The rear courtyard is partially cobbled. Stacey’s designs for ambitious ornamental gardens were apparently not completed, with plans remaining at Rosecare Villa Farm.