Rose Cottage

Rose Cottage is a mid 19th-century cottage, likely with an 18th-century core. It is built from plastered stone rubble with sections of cob, featuring stone rubble stacks topped with 19th-century brick and a slate roof. The cottage faces south-west and has a double-depth plan. Originally, the front had two rooms on either side of a central passage leading to the rear stair and service rooms. Currently, the front end stacks are disused, and the partitions between the rooms have been removed. The room at the back of the right room, likely the kitchen, has an end stack, and the stairs rise at the back of the left end. The cottage is two storeys high and has 20th-century service outshots at the rear. Rose Cottage has been enlarged, incorporating the adjoining cottage, Charwood, which is listed separately.

The exterior features a symmetrical two-window front with mid 19th-century casements that have an attractive margin pane pattern of glazing bars. The central doorway has been blocked and replaced with a smaller window in the same style. The main roof extends continuously over the adjoining Charwood on the right, while it has a gable end on the left. A 20th-century doorway is located at the rear end of this wall.

Inside, the cottage has largely been modernized in the 19th and 20th centuries. The only feature that may predate the 19th century is the rear kitchen fireplace, which has plastered sides and a roughly-finished oak lintel. The roof, dating from the mid 19th century, showcases good craftsmanship with A-frame trusses, spiked lap-jointed collars, and plate yokes. The timbers bear carpenter's assembly marks. Rose Cottage forms a group with other listed buildings near the Church of St Mary, and several houses in the area feature these attractive and locally distinct 19th-century windows.