Rose Cottage

Rose Cottage is a cottage exhibiting two distinct phases of construction; the left-hand portion dates to the 17th century and was remodelled in the 20th century, while the right-hand portion is likely from the 18th century, with 20th-century additions to the rear. The walls are a mix of whitewashed plastered cob and stone, topped with a thatched roof consisting of two sections with differing heights, featuring a plain ridge. The left end has a half-hipped design and lower thatch, while the right end has a taller ridge. Brick shafts project from a left-end stack, a rear lateral stack, and a right-end stack.

The cottage sits raised above the road on a hillside, resulting in a significant difference in floor level between the left and right ends. Originally, the left-hand section likely began as a 17th-century house, later subdivided into smaller cottages. At one point, the right-hand end was a single property adjoining Hillside.

The current layout includes three rooms, originally single-depth. The middle room was heated by the rear lateral stack, while the flanking rooms were heated by the end stacks. The stair blocking the lateral stack has rendered it inoperable; the dividing wall between the left and middle rooms has been removed, and there is no internal access between the right-hand room and the middle room on the ground floor. A single-storey rear addition dates to the 20th century. The cottage is two storeys high.

The front façade is asymmetrical, with a 2:1 window arrangement. The left-hand end presents a roughly symmetrical appearance with eyebrowed eaves over two first-floor windows. A 20th-century two-leaf glazed door is centrally positioned. Ground-floor windows are two-light with two vertical panes per light, while the first-floor windows have two lights with 20th-century diamond leaded panes. The right-hand end features one first-floor and one ground-floor 20th-century two-light casement windows, alongside stone steps leading to a 20th-century glazed front door.

The left return, visible from the hillside, has the thatch carried down over the chimney breast, with the brick shaft projecting through the thatch. A ground-floor two-light casement with two vertical panes and a first-floor two-light casement with three panes are also present.

Inside the left-hand room, a deeply chamfered scroll-stopped cross beam and a similar half-beam are visible. A 20th-century fireplace has been installed. Straight principal rafters visible in the roof suggest a possible replacement in the 18th century or later.

Rose Cottage possesses group value with Hillside and contributes to an attractive group of thatched buildings along the road leading towards the village centre.