Rose Cottage

Rose Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with partial rebuilding in the 18th century and further alterations around the mid-19th century. It features a timber frame with brick infilling, and the exterior is finished in Flemish bond red brick with vitrified headers. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with corrugated iron, having gabled and half-hipped ends. There are brick stacks at the axial and gable ends with set-offs.

The house has a three-room lobby entrance plan. The unheated room is located at the northwest end, with a central hall heated by a fireplace in the axial stack and an entrance lobby in front. The front and northwest end walls were rebuilt in brick during the 18th century, while the southeast bay was entirely reconstructed in brick around the mid-19th century. There is a small outhouse from the mid-19th century at the northwest end.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window southwest front. It features two-light casements with glazing bars and a small two-light window below the eaves to the right of the center. The doorway, located to the right of center, has a flush panel door and is sheltered by a small 19th-century brick gabled porch with a side entrance. The rear northeast side displays exposed square framing with brick panels.

Inside, the central room (the hall) has a chamfered axial beam with hollow step stops, unchamfered joists, and a blocked brick fireplace with a cambered stop-chamfered timber bressumer. There is a plank-and-muntin screen separating the hall from the left room, featuring bead arris mouldings on the muntins and a chamfered head beam with long hollow step stops. The left room also has a chamfered axial beam with long hollow step stops and unchamfered joists. The right room contains two thin chamfered axial beams with run-out stops and a blocked fireplace. Some 19th-century plank doors and a simple 19th-century staircase are present. A heavy timber-frame partition is located over the plank-and-muntin screen, comprising posts, rails, and a collar. The original roof structure over the upper end of the house remains largely intact, complete with its common-rafter couples, although the principals of the truss have been truncated above the purlins. The right-hand end features a later 19th-century roof.