Rose And Unicorn House

Rose and Unicorn House is a house dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, constructed of rubble stone with a stone-tiled roof, featuring ridge and south end stacks and a coped south gable. The building has two storeys and an 'L'-shaped plan. The west front has a four-window range and was formerly two cottages. It includes a coved eaves cornice, four first-floor three-light recessed ovolo-moulded mullion windows with hoodmoulds, and a ground floor door to the left with a hood on brackets. There is a single light and a 12-pane window in a moulded surround, followed by a door in a moulded architrave with a pediment on brackets, and two three-light mullion windows with hoodmoulds and relieving arches, one ovolo-moulded and one recessed cyma-moulded.

The rear of the house shows a straight joint between two sections. The left section features flush cornerstones and an off-centre curved stair tower with a stone-tiled roof that extends into a gable. It has a range of three-light windows to the left, with one ovolo-moulded above and a recessed cyma-moulded window with a relieving arch below, both having hoodmoulds. To the right, there is a two-light ovolo-moulded window and a hoodmould over a door with a hood on brackets. The right section has one ground floor two-light recessed cyma-moulded window with a hoodmould. The rear wing, likely from the 18th century, has a door to the left and a two-window range of flush cyma-moulded two-light windows with dripstones. It also features an east end stack and a bread oven.

Inside, the north half of the front range has a massive timber-lintel Tudor-arched fireplace and a chamfered spine beam. The south half contains a bolection-moulded stone fireplace with a shelf and fielded panelling up to dado level. The walls in this area and above are stamped with a cross motif featuring a central rose and four unicorns. Upstairs, the south end has a Tudor-arched fireplace with a fluted frieze and a stone shelf. The house is said to date from 1648.